PATC: Short course on HPC-based Computational Bio-Medicine
Data: 13/Feb/2019 Time: 09:00 - 15/Feb/2019 Time: 18:00
The course will take place in Barcelona Supercomputing Center, within the UPC Campus Nord premises.
Vertex Building VS208
Target group: INTERMEDIATE: for trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge;
Cost: There is no registration fee. The attendees would need to cover the expenses for travel, accommodation and meals. CompBioMed will be offering a few travel grants for this training event. Please go to Further information to learn more about the requirements.
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Day 1 (Feb. 13)
Session 1 / 9:00am – 1:00 pm (4 h lectures)
9:00-9:15 Welcome (Mariano Vázquez, BSC)
9:15-11:00 Introduction to HPC in Computational Modelling (Marco Verdicchio, SURFsara)
11:00-13:00 Compilation and Optimization in the HPC environment (Okba Hamitou, Bull)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 2 / 2:00pm – 6:00 pm (4 h lectures)
14:00-16:00 Zoom in on blood - Using supercomputers in hemodynamics (UvA) (Gábor Závodszky, UvA)
16:00-18:00 PlayMolecule: Cloud-based Applications for Molecular Discovery (João Damas, ACELLERA, Adrià Perez, UPF)
Day 2 (Feb. 14)
Session 3 / 9:00am – 1:00 pm (4 h lectures)
9:00-11:00 Hands on Image Registration with pFIRE (Phil Tooley, USFD)
11:00-12:00 Parallel algorithms for Computational Mechanics (Ricard Borrell, BSC)
12:00-13:00 HPC Multi-scale computational modelling using Alya Red (Jazmín Aguado-Sierra, BSC)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 4 / 2:00pm – 6:00 pm (2 h lectures, 2 h practical)
14:00-15:00 Introduction to Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) and GPCR Modelling (Dr Alexander Heifetz, EVOTEC)
15:00-16:00 Innovations in HPC-training for medical, science and engineering students (Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, UCL)
16:00-18:00 Molecular Medicine: Hands On (Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, UCL)
Day 3 (Feb. 15)
Session 5 / 9:00am – 1:00 pm (4 h lectures)
9:00-10:00 Data Visualization for Researchers (Guillermo Marín, BSC)
10:00-12:00 Visualization applied to 2D/3D scientific datasets (Paul Melis, SURFsara)
12:00-13:00 Integrating Computational Biology and Soil Metagenomics: An Undergraduate Study ( Mariana Pereira da Costa, UCL)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
Session 6 / 2:00pm – 4:00 pm
14:00-16:00 Visit to MareNostrum
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