ScalaLife
Name
ScalaLife - Scalable Software Services for Life Science
Area
Combination of collaborative project and coordination and support action
Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 1 September 2011
About ScalaLife
The ScalaLife project intends to build a cross-disciplinary Competence Centre for life science software that should evolve to a "one-stop-shop" for users and developers of Life Science software alike. The project has three main objectives:
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Develop new hierarchical parallelization approaches explicitly based on ensemble and High Throughput Computing for new multi-core and streaming/GPU architectures, and establish open software standards for data storage and exchange.
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Implement, document, and maintain such techniques in pilot European open-source codes such as the widely used GROMACS & DALTON, a new application for ensemble simulation (DISCRETE), and large-scale bioinformatics protein annotation.
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Create a competence centre for scalable life science software to strengthen Europe as a major software provider and to enable the community to exploit e-Infrastructures to their full extent. This competence network will provide training and support infrastructure, and establish a long-term framework for maintenance and optimisation of life science codes.
Overview of the collaboration
This collaboration will contribute to enabling the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. The specific goals of the collaborations are to:
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VRC integration
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Dissemination
Resources
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ScalaLife joins EGI community (news item)
