e-BioGrid
What is e-BioGrid?
The e-BioGrid project helps Life Science programmers to use the infrastructure of the BiG Grid project. BiG Grid (led by partners Nikhef and NBIC) organizes large computational infrastructure for scientific research. The e-Science & Cloud Services group at SARA participates actively in the e-BioGrid project.
BiG Grid infrastructure
This infrastructure consists of compute clusters and data storage, combined with specific middleware and software, to enable research which needs more than just raw computing power or data storage.
Support for Life Scientists
Currently, life scientists can make use of different BiG Grid systems, such as the Life Science Grid, clusters and HPC Cloud Computing. Also the use of GPUs is facilitated. e-BioGrid will help Life Scientists in the Netherlands to use this infrastructure. We can support people to set up their own work, but we can also help to build special solutions in collaboration with interested scientific groups.
Main projects and dedicated projects
There are two kinds of e-BioGrid projects: main projects and dedicated projects. The main projects involve relatively large efforts, e.g. the development of a pipeline software and hardware infrastructure for a particular analysis technology. It requires manpower from BiG Grid and takes at least two years. The dedicated projects run for a maximum of 3-4 months, and enable support on demand. The number of main projects is limited. The number of dedicated projects depends on the number of incoming proposals and available resources.
Links
- e-BioGrid: www.ebiogrid.nl
- BiG Grid: www.biggrid.nl
- Nikhef: www.nikhef.nl
- NBIC: www.nbic.nl
