Abstract
Due to the significantly drastic progress and improvement in neurophysiological recording technologies, neuroscientists have faced various complexities dealing with unstructured large-scale neural data. In the neuroscience community, these complexities could create serious bottlenecks in storing, sharing, and processing neural datasets. In this article, we developed a distributed high-performance computing (HPC) framework called `Big neuronal data framework' (BNDF), to overcome these complexities. BNDF is based on open-source big data frameworks, Hadoop and Spark providing a flexible and scalable structure. We examined BNDF on three different large-scale electrophysiological recording datasets from nonhuman primate’s brains. Our results exhibited faster runtimes with scalability due to the distributed nature of BNDF. We compared BNDF results to a widely used platform like MATLAB in an equitable computational resource. Compared with other similar methods, using BNDF provides more than five times faster performance in spike sorting as a usual neuroscience application.
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