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