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)
Announcing the end of support for ICGR projects at Vital-IT.
The ICGR project is officialy closed for Vital-IT.
We do not accept any new ICGR projects.
(VF, 06.2010)
Vital-IT, through funding provided by the EU
6th
Framework Programme, is pleased to invite proposals for cost-free
use of its Integrated Computational Genomics Resource from
individuals, institutions and companies from any of the EU Member
and Associated States.
Visiting Developer Programme
Visiting developers may stay for a period from one week to two months at Vital-IT, with a likely average of one month. Their activities may include the development of new software for HPC applications in life-science, parallelization and optimiziation of existing software for the specific hardware architecture of Vital-IT, and large data analysis projects making use of the rich database collection offered by this facility. They will be provided with office space, free access to all hardware and software resources required by the project, and technical assistance from Vital-IT staff.
Visiting developers will be selected primarily on the basis of a project proposal that will be evaluated by a review panel including external experts in high performance computing, bioinformatics and genomics, including representatives from industry.
Remote Access Programme
Remote access to the Vital-IT infrastructure and computational genomics environment is provided via a new user-oriented Web interface. Successful applicants will be provided with a user account on Vital-IT and adequate CPU and disk storage quota to carry out the proposed project. This programme is primarily intended for projects that depend on database and software resources that were developed at Vital-IT and cannot easily be ported to another HPC centre.
Requests for remote access to Vital-IT will also be evaluated by the review panel mentioned above. Remote users of the Vital-IT platform should prepare and submit their jobs according to detailed guidelines similar to those applied to existing users. These jobs should be able to run without requiring further assistance from Vital-IT personnel, and will partly be selected according to this criterion.
Training
Users, in particular those with limited technical experience, can also attend courses on the technical aspects of the infrastructure, to learn how to take full advantage of it. The training mainly targets new users from European countries. The courses, which are offered periodically at the Vital-IT facility, typically extend to 1 or 2 days, and are open to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and more senior researchers. The Access Programme can provide some travel and living expenses for people attending the courses.
How to Apply
Proposals for both the Visiting Developer and Remote Access Programmes should be submitted using the online Application Form. Applications will be reviewed regularly and every effort made to give applicants a timely decision.
Acknowledgments
Thank you for citing the Transnational Access Programme using the following text in your publications:
"The computations were performed at the Vital-IT (http://www.vital-it.ch)
Center for high-performance computing of the Swiss Institute of
Bioinformatics. The research was funded in part by the Integrated
Computational Genomics Resources of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
: RITA-CT-2006-026204".