PATC Course: Simulation Environments for Life Sciences

Date: 13/Mar/2014 Time: 09:00 - 14/Mar/2014 Time: 18:00

Place:

The course will take place in
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre,
within the UPC Campus Nord premises.

Room VS219, Vertex Building (green on the map)
S indicates that the room is 2 floors below the entrance level.

Target group: Level: for trainees with some theoretical and practical knowledge 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.

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

NOTE: PATC courses do not charge fees.

The registration for this course opens on 1st of October 2013.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP.


Recommended Accomodation:


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Contact Us:


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:


The PATC Courses at BSC are funded by BSC and the PRACE 3IP Project.

If you want to learn more about PRACE Project, visit the website.