ELIXIR-IT HPC@CINECA: high performance computing resources for the bioinformatics community.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The advent of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies and the concomitant reduction in sequencing costs allows unprecedented high throughput profiling of biological systems in a cost-efficient manner. Modern biological experiments are increasingly becoming both data and computationally intensive and the wealth of publicly available biological data is introducing bioinformatics into the "Big Data" era. For these reasons, the effective application of High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures is becoming progressively more recognized also by bioinformaticians. Here we describe HPC resources provisioning pilot programs dedicated to bioinformaticians, run by the Italian Node of ELIXIR (ELIXIR-IT) in collaboration with CINECA, the main Italian supercomputing center.

SUBMITTER: Castrignano T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7446135 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature