Copyright 1999-2000 VA Linux Systems, Inc. http://www.nitrc.org NITRC Community Latest News http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10263 62,000+ downloads later, NITRC-CE is entering its sunset. Here's what's still available.<br /> <br /> A Decade of NITRC-CE — and What Comes Next<br /> <br /> In 2012, getting FSL, AFNI, FreeSurfer, and SPM running together on one machine was a week of your life. Then, after updating all the software versions, sometimes you would not even have enough compute power to run the study. We heard horror stories of labs chaining multiple computers together overnight in order to get a study done. As a result, we created the NITRC Computational Environment (NITRC-CE), making that headache all go away with a download and cloud compute option. Since then, NITRC-CE has been downloaded for local use more than 64,500 times, used in the cloud for over 700,000 compute hours (over 80 years of time!), been used to teach workshops, run hackathons, and given labs without a cluster a real path into cloud computing.<br /> <br /> NITRC-CE is now entering a sunset status, largely because the field caught up to our pioneering service. Containers, BIDS Apps, and purpose-built community platforms now do what a monolithic VM once did, and do it better. That's a good outcome.<br /> You can still use it. Two options remain: launch it on AWS from the published AMI IDs, or run it locally from the downloadable image on your own infrastructure. NITRC-CE LITE is retired, and there are no planned new releases; existing releases, release notes, and documentation stay available. Please cite it as RRID: SCR_002494.<br /> <br /> Where do we go from here? NITRC-CE started because we spotted an unmet need. We'd like to find the next one from you rather than guess at it.<br /> <br /> What slows you down? What do you have a fragile workaround for? What can't you find on NITRC that you wish you could?<br /> <br /> Reply to us at moderator@nitrc.org. Be as short as one sentence or as long as ten paragraphs. Your answers will help shape what we prioritize next.<br /> NITRC Community Abby Paulson Wed, 07 Oct 2026 5:04:15 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10261 ReproNim First Fridays Webinar – Friday, October 2, 2026 at 2pm ET<br /> <br /> ReproNim/INCF Fellowship alum James Kent (Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin) is our featured speaker this month. James is the technical lead for NeuroSynth 2.0 and the lead backend developer for Neurosynth Compose, and actively involved with the open science community as well.<br /> <br /> Presentation Title: “Large scale extraction of structured information from neuroimaging articles for meta-analysis and meta-science (LLMs are involved).”<br /> <br /> Description: Neurosynth.org puts studies and analyses into coarse buckets severely limiting the claims you can draw from them; what if we could recover structured details about the specific contrasts that occurred in the tens of thousands of neuroimaging studies? Can we close the gap between synthesizing previous data and prospective studies? Can we identify meaningful gaps in the existing corpus of neuroimaging research? Some answers; and many more questions ahead.<br /> <br /> Webinar Registration - https://umassmed.zoom.us/meeting/register/mhxcAm_7R_msH3__kO0Lgg#/registration<br /> <br /> Video Presentation and Slides will be made available as soon as possible following the presentation. ReproNim: A Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation David Kennedy Fri, 02 Oct 2026 3:12:45 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10259 https://www.nitrc.org/projects/pysisyphe/<br /> <br /> - Bug fixing,<br /> - Support for Linux Ubuntu LTS 26.04,<br /> - Stand-alone frozen version under Python 3.12,<br /> - New features: new DTI models (FW-DTI, RUMBA, IVIM), diffusion analysis along perivascular space (ALPS diffusion index), quantitative MR (B0 map, B1 map, T1 map, T2/T2* map, T2' map, MTR map, QSM map), ASL DSC map, new algorithm for dynamic susceptibility contrast MR perfusion.<br /> - See https://pysisyphe.github.io/Sisyphe/PySisyphe_overview.html#page-overview NITRC Community Jean-Albert Lotterie Wed, 16 Sep 2026 1:32:53 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10258 If you are in Boston in October, please note the following:<br /> ReproNim is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop:<br /> <br /> Neuroimaging, Reproducibility and LLMs: Early promises and future questions<br /> <br /> Date: October 16th 9:30am - 1:00pm EDT (In person only)<br /> Location: MIT - Singleton Auditorium, Building 46 (3rd floor, 3002), 43 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139<br /> Registration: Required but free and open to all! Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroimaging-reproducibility-and-llms-early-promises-and-future-question-tickets-1999618019324?aff=oddtdtcreator&amp;keep_tld=true<br /> <br /> The objective of this in-person workshop is to introduce the technology and train neuroscience / neuroimaging researchers on the potential of Large Language Models in brain imaging research. To achieve this, we will show and discuss key directions for which LLMs have - and will have - a fundamental impact, review and contrast research project examples, introduce latest techniques, and discuss potential limitations and risks associated with this transformative technology.<br /> <br /> Speakers will include: JB Poline (McGill), David Kennedy (UMassMed), Brent McPherson (McGill), Michelle Wang (McGill), Yaroslav Halchenko (Dartmouth), Johanna Bayer (McGill), and Satra Ghosh (MIT). ReproNim: A Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation David Kennedy Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:40:33 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10257 Last call for registration to the CONN 2026 functional connectivity workshop. This workshop will take place ONLINE over five consecutive weeks with 3-½ hour classes on Mondays and Thursdays from 12pm to 3:30pm UTC , starting on Thursday September 10th and ending on Monday October 12th 2026 (see https://conn-toolbox.org/workshops for course schedule, content, and registration details).<br /> <br /> The CONN toolbox workshop offers intensive hands-on and highly interactive courses covering all aspects of functional connectivity analyses in CONN, and both beginners and advanced users are welcome. Classes take place over Zoom. Zoom meetings of each class are recorded and made available to students to view at any time during the course. and up to one month after the course ends There are also practice homework assignments, and faculty is available during office-hour segments for additional student questions or support.<br /> <br /> For additional information and registration see https://conn-toolbox.org/workshops<br /> Thank you for your support!<br /> Alfonso Nieto-Castanon<br /> CONN : functional connectivity toolbox Alfonso Nieto-Castanon Thu, 03 Sep 2026 2:47:29 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10256 We are pleased to announce the release of NITRC v2.1.76. NITRC now supports large files in the File Release System, streamlining the release of modern software and datasets. Several other bugs and feature requests were also addressed.<br /> <br /> Release notes can be found at https://www.nitrc.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php?title=nitrc:NITRC_Release_Notes#NITRC-R_Release_v2.1.76-2_-_8.2F27.2F2026 NITRC Community NITRC Moderator Fri, 28 Aug 2026 6:35:26 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10255 We are pleased to announce the initial release of the UNC Early Life Whole-Brain Functional Parcellation (UNC_ELF). UNC-ELF provides age-independent and age-dependent functional parcellations of the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and subcortex from birth to six years of age within a unified whole-brain framework. The release includes multi-resolution and age-specific parcellation maps, templates, and label/color tables. UNC Early Life Whole-Brain Functional Parcellation Dan Hu Tue, 18 Aug 2026 1:10:18 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10254 Has been on GitHub since 2025 time, NITRC link now updated. One-step General Registration and Extraction Benjamin Philip Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:50:48 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10247 Join NITRC at OHBM 2026 June 15-18. <br /> <br /> Learn more about how NITRC can help you in your research, find new resources and data, share your own work, let us know what we can do for you, or just stop by to catch up!<br /> <br /> You'll find us in Exhibitor booth #30 as well as presenting a Poster 3295 in Hall 1 on Wednesday, June 17 from 12:45-1:45 and Thursday, June 18 from 1:45-2:45 pm. NITRC Community Nina Preuss Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:49:44 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10249 We are pleased to announce the release of NITRC v2.1.75. This release addresses a number of usability issues and bugs.<br /> <br /> Full release notes can be found at https://www.nitrc.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php?title=nitrc:NITRC_Release_Notes#NITRC-R_Release_v2.1.75-6_-_5.2F26.2F2026<br /> NITRC Community NITRC Moderator Mon, 08 Jun 2026 4:47:31 GMT