PATC: Introduction to Simulation Environments for Life Sciences

Data: 11/Mar/2020 Time: 09:00 - 12/Mar/2020 Time: 18:00

Place:

The course will take place in Barcelona Supercomputing Center, within the UPC Campus Nord premises: Vertex Building. Room VS208

Target group: Level: (All courses are designed for specialists with at least 1st cycle degree or similar background experience) 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.

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Objectives

The course will make the attendants familiar with simulation technologies used in Life Sciences and their specific adaptation to HPC environment

Detailed outline:
Introduction to biomolecular simulation
Coarse-grained and atomistic simulation strategies
Automated setup for simulation

HPC specifics: Large scale parallelization, use of GPU’s
Storage and strategies for large scale trajectory analysis

Learning Outcomes: Setup, execute, and analyze standard simulations in HPC environment

Requirements

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of structural bioinformatics Basic knowledge of parallelization strategies. Material will be provided during the course, students are welcome to provide their own use cases.
 

 

 

Academic Staff

Course Convener: Josep Gelpi

 

Materials

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS NOTICE:

• The User may only download, make and retain a copy of the materials for his/her use for non‐commercial and research purposes.

• The User may not commercially use the material, unless has been granted prior written consent by the Licensor to
do so; and cannot remove, obscure or modify copyright notices, text acknowledging or other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear.

• For further details, please contact BSC‐CNS patc [at] bsc [dot] es

Further information

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP.
NOTE: 
PATC courses do not charge fees

Recommended Accomodation:  Please follow the link for map of some local hotels.

CONTACT US for further details about MSc, PhD, Post Doc studies, exchanges and collaboration in education and training with BSC.
For further details about Postgraduate Studies in UPC - Barcelona School of Informatics (FiB), visit the website.

Sponsors:  BSC and PRACE 5IP project are funding the PATC @ BSC training events.
If you want to learn more about PRACE Project, visit the website.