Message of the Day.
A course on "Computational Analysis of Ultra-High-Throughput (UHT) Sequencing Data"
will use the Vital-IT infrastructure from the:
13th Sep. 2010 until the 17th Sep. 2010.
The load on our computing infrastructure may be higher during this time.
Please contact us if you need more information.
(VF, 05.08.2010)
Vital-IT is an innovative life science informatics initiative providing computational resources, consultancy and training to connect fundamental and applied research. It is a collaboration between the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Hewlett Packard Company, Intel Corporation and Oracle. These partners form an alliance of unrivalled expertise in the processing and analysis of biological information. Using their complementary competencies, they provide fundamental science and leading edge technology for the construction of a world-class high-perfomance computing platform, and the expertise to allow it to be exploited effectively for solution of both scientific and commercial problems.
Vital-IT provides infrastructure and computational expertise to support research conducted primarily by its partners, and develops hardware and software solutions to allow research results to be turned into marketable products. Additionally, the group serves as an interface between academic research and its consumers in the commercial world.
Main Vital-IT services are running normally.
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(VF, 17.08.2010)
Account creation
To obtain an account on the Vital-IT HPC Platform, please fill out the registration form:
HPC Job submission
Registered users can submit computing jobs using a convenient web interface:
Installed Bioinformatic Tools
For a list of bioinformatic tools installed on Vital-IT, please look at: