Hi Amir,
I have made preliminary containers for 8.0.0 and 8.1.0.
https://hub.docker.com/r/pwighton/freesurfer/tags
The dockerfiles for the containers a here:
https://github.com/pwighton/fs-docker/tree/master/freesurfer
If you use it, I'd appreciate it if you could report your experiences on this github issue
https://github.com/freesurfer/freesurfer/issues/1308
-Paul
________________________________________ From: AmirHussein Abdolalizadeh amirhussein.a@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 3:22 AM To: Freesurfer support list Subject: [Freesurfer] FreeSurfer 8.X Container?
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Hi Freesurfer users/experts,
I am looking for a containerized version of FreeSurfer 8.X. If none is available, please let me know if there are any plans to release it as a containerized version.
Many people use high-performance clusters for their FreeSurfer analysis, which makes the recent FreeSurfer a bit not HPC-user-friendly; for example, the new recon-all requires 80GB RAM, so it must run on an HPC, but switching to the "cuda" version of some Python commands requires sudo - which is not often given to the HPC users.
Best, Amir