Jetstream and Brain-Life: Creating a reproducible research platform on the Jetstream cloud

Abstract

Jetstream is the 1st production cloud funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for conducting general science and engineering research. Brain-Life is an in-development grassroots research platform with the proposed goal to provide an easy-to-use platform for Neuroscientists and other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) researchers to publish their data and algorithms, as well as manipulate archived data with on-demand compute resources. One of the core compute resources being used by the Brain-Life platform is the Jetstream production cloud. In this paper, we discuss the ease by which the Brain-Life platform is able to integrate itself with the Jetstream cloud and depict several applications on Brain-Life that have been successfully implemented using the Jetstream cloud service. We also identify issues in the integration of Brain-Life and Jetstream, and the problems which show up when trying to run algorithms on the Jetstream cloud via the Brain-Life platform.