First meeting of the workgroup infrastructure and HPC
The first meeting of the workgroup infrastructure and HPC will take place at the Gregor-Mendel-Institute in Vienna from Monday March 21, 14.00 until Tuesday March 22, 14.00.
Venue
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology GmbH, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Program
Begin: Mon, March 21, 14.00
1. Current situation:
- Overview on computational resources for life sciences in all Austria (short presentations by participants; max 10 min; template for slides will be provided)
- Short overview how the individual infrastructure is operated
- Existing interfaces and usage of (inter-)national High-Performance Computers (VSC, PRACE, ...)
Coffee break
2. Discussion on future Bio-HPC in Austria:
- Future hardware, software, networking requirements of research groups and facilities
- Potential synergies between computational resources on institute level -> how to develop a coherent network of all Biocomputing centres in Austria
- Centralized hardware with a service layer providing Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
- Interfaces to High-Performance Computing -> Requests of university-based workgroups for upcoming VSC-4 and discrimination from HRSM application
19.00 Dinner in Amon's Gastwirtschaft, Schlachthausgasse 13, 1030 Wien
Tue, March 22, 9.00
3. Concept of a joint application for the HRSM call 2016 (Hochschulraumstrukturmittel)
- Scientific and technical structure
- Operational model and administration
- Financial requirements
Coffee break
4. Schedule and locations of further meetings
13.00 Lunch
End: Tue, March 22, 14.00
Registration
Please nominate representative(s) of your group as soon as possible via mail to contact@bioinformatik.at