Application description QIIME (Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology) is a powerful bioinformatic tool widely used in microbiome research. It is designed to analyze and interpret microbial data derived from high-throughput sequencing technologies. QIIME provides researchers with a comprehensive suite of tools and workflows to process, analyze, and visualize microbial diversity and composition within a given…
A recording of the authors of Virtual You at the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts has been released as it has been recommended by the Financial Times as one of the best science books to read this summer. Before a packed audience on Hay’s Wye Stage, Peter Coveney of UCL and Roger Highfield of the…
CompBioMed’s 31st e-seminar took place on 26 July 2023, titled “Assessing the Credibility of Computational Models: Application of the FDA-Endorsed ASME VV-40“. Computational models in the medical field are more and more stepping out the door of the laboratories they were developed in to find practical applications in the clinical or regulatory practice, for instance.…
Due to popular demand, the abstract submission deadline for CompBioMed Conference 2023 has been extended to 30 June 2023. You can read more and submit abstracts on the conference website.
The latest issue of the CompBioMed Newsletter is now available, addressing the upcoming CompBioMed Conference 2023, the book Virtual You, the CompBioMed film Virtual Pandemics, our scalability service, and biomedical urgent computing in the exascale era. Click here to view it. To find our other newsletter, follow this link.
Introduction This Rough Guide is a Crib Sheet for improving the efficiency of parallel software for future supercomputers, and was last updated 17th February, 2023 by g.pringle@epcc.ed.ac.uk. This guide first appeared as an appendix of a CompBioMed deliverable [1]. This guide was then updated and appeared as an appendix for the CoE EXCELERAT deliverable [2].…
CompBioMed’s 30th e-seminar took place at at on 22 March 2023, titled “nUCLeus: Creating and Running a Successful Adaptable, Portable HPC Education Environment“. In March of 2020 the UCL and Sheffield teams found themselves teaching in a remote world. With the need to create HPC courses for medical students, and difficulties securing on-site hosting due…
CompBioMed’s 29th e-seminar took place at on 18 January 2023, titled “OpenMP in the Exascale Era”. Modern supercomputer nodes now contain more than 100 cores, and often several GPUs. This means that the “MPI only” approach to parallel programming is coming under increasing strain and can no longer deliver the maximum performance from the hardware.…
A UCL-led team of researchers is to use the world’s first exascale computer to identify a shortlist of potential new drugs for diseases and to better understand how stroke affects the brain. The supercomputer, Frontier, at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee, US, is the first in the world capable of an exaflop…
From pangolin scales that can stand up to hard hits to colourful but sturdy peacock feathers, nature can do a lot with a few simple molecules. In a new review paper, Peter Coveney and a team of international researchers have laid out how engineers are taking inspiration from the biological world—and designing new kinds of…