Workshop 4

Title: High performance computing and grid infrastructure for neuroinformatics applications

Chair: Luciano Milanesi, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Milan, Italy

Co-chair: Shiro Usui, RIKEN Brain Institute, Wako, Japan

Understanding the structure, function and development of the brain is a key to understand human beings and improve their quality of life. To achieve this goal it is essential to develop and to use the modern ICT e-Infrastructure capable of exploiting the next generation of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems beyond the Petaflop scale in a collaborative and efficient way.

In this workshop we will consider these computational challenges using the Network Infrastructure, Supercomputer and Grid technologies for scientific computing. In addition we will consider some of the opportunities that massive parallelism offers when using computational tools  to calculate very complex numerical models that may help improve diagnosis/treatment of neurological disorders.

Speakers:

• Markus Diesmann, RIKEN BSI, Japan

• Andrey Semin, Intel Corporation, Germany

• Pietro Liò, University of Cambridge, UK