Conveners
in Research: Afternoon Sessions
- Pedro Santos Neves (University of Groningen)
Description
Sessions on the application of compute in research.
Expect talks from researchers on the way the employ compute to solve problems and do science.
Hábrók, the HPC cluster of the University of Groningen, has been operational for two years. In this talk I will discuss some highlights and challenges during these year and discuss future plans.
In this talk, I will share how large-scale molecular dynamics simulations are used to understand the behaviour of disease-related proteins and their regulation by molecular chaperones. This research, situated at the intersection of structural biology and computational science, relies heavily on the university's high-performance computing infrastructure, particularly Hábrók and Snellius. I will...
The HPC team of the University of Groningen is one of the main founders of the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI). This collaborative project focuses on providing a common scientific software stack that can be used on virtually any Linux machine (and Windows, using WSL), including workstations, laptops, virtual machines, and HPC clusters.
By having this...
The rapid growth in large scale online data availability and the advancement of computational techniques have transformed the quantitative approach to social sciences. In this talk, I will explore how leveraging the Habrok cluster has empowered us to tackle complex sociological questions that were previously challenging due to methodological bottlenecks. Highlighting specific cases, such as...
At the UMCG radiotherapy department, cancer patients are treated with targeted radiation. To plan treatment, clinicians outline tumours and nearby healthy organs on CT scans. This step is crucial but time-consuming. Therefore, deep learning segmentation models are now used in the clinical workflow. However, their outputs still require human oversight, as accuracy varies between cases. The...
In this session we want to wrap-up the research track with a discussion on the future of compute clusters like Hábrók.
What kind of service(s) does the university need in the future for providing researchers with compute and storage?
We'll ask the audience to participate by responding to a couple of questions.
