Computing is a critical resource for high-impact research and commercial applications, in particular in Life Sciences. Exascale computer systems enable ever faster modelling and simulations, with paramount influence on health/medical applications, drug development, efficient drug delivery, biotechnology, environment, agriculture, food industry, and not least education.
BioExcel CoE was established already in 2015. In the current phase three the centre contitnues to:
- Support & maintain key European open-source applications that have been selected by researchers as their tools of choice (measured by applications and scientific citations, with periodic re-assessment), and improving their performance, reliability, and quality to meet academic and industrial needs.
- Refine the user-driven development where all efforts will be prioritised based on scientific impact and ensuring European researchers will be able to deploy on EuroHPC resources efficiently.
- Educate and enable users how to exploit modern technologies, including ensemble algorithms, AI approaches, and convergence of high-performance computing, high-throughput computing, and high-performance data analytics as well as providing the workflows necessary to achieve this.
- Develop and delivering state-of-the-art online and hands-on tutorials, documentation, and hands-on training resources for next-generation workforce development, in particular PhD students.
- Create a new BioExcel Ambassador Program to enable the greater community to more explicitly channel input to code developers and help disseminate knowledge and training.