HPC Webinar
ICI Bucharest

ICI Bucharest continues its mission to familiarize the Romanian audience with the notion of HPC - High Performance Computing

The National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest) organized today, February 2nd 2022, the event "Health Innovation powered by High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

The aim of the session was to familiarize the audience with the use of HPC in the health sector, by sharing case studies and good practices, the presentations being delivered by specialists from Austria (Rheologic, Innophore, Institute of Pharmacology of the Medical University of Vienna) and from Bulgaria (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

The event was aimed at existing or potential users of HPC, HPDA (High Performance Data Analysis) and AI (Artifial Intelligence), both in the private sector (SMEs, start-ups) and in the public sector (universities, public administration, research institutions and others), whose projects and activities fall into the field of FARMA and MEDICAL.

Topics covered at the webinar ranged from "Process Improvements for Pharmaceutical Applications and Custom Numerical Solutions", "Industrial Bioinformatics via HPC: Covid-19 Case Study", "Using MD Simulations to Study Serotonin Transport via SERT, an essential step in the clearance of neurotransmitters ”to “Supercomputer applications in biomedical engineering - from simulation to PoC and production”.

Context: The National Institute for Research - Development in Informatics - ICI Bucharest operates as a Center of Competence within the EuroCC project - "European National Competence Centers in the framework of EuroHPC". Through this center, a network of competencies in HPC is created that will operate as an interface to facilitate access to resources and capabilities in this field, both in Romania and in Europe (through the EuroCC network). Thus, the center provides valuable resources for Romanian users in the private sector and industry, for public institutions, educational and research institutions, users and providers of IT services, as well as other interested entities.