[hpc-announce] CCGrid-Life 2019 - Call for Participation: Workshop May 14, Larnaca, Cyprus and Special Issue in FCGS June 15

[Dagmar Krefting]

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Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences
In conjunction with CCGrid 2019 - 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium
on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 14–17, 2019, Larnaca, Cyprus

Website: http://lsgc.org/ccgrid-life/

May 14 2019, 9:00-16:00h

Submission Deadline for Special Issue: June 15th 2019

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# Call for Participation and Special Issue

We are happy to announce the program for the upcoming CCGrid-Life Workshop.
Furthermore we would like to announce that the Special Issue is open for
further
original work in the field of Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences.

## Program

### Accepted papers

- Exploiting stream parallelism of MRI reconstruction using
GrPPI over multiple back-ends	

- Big Data Analytics Exploration of Green Space and Mental Health in
MelbournE

- Enabling Large Scale Data Production for OpenDose with GATE on the
EGI Infrastructure	

- On distributed collaboration for biomedical analyses	

- Towards a Science Gateway for Bioinformatics: Experiences in the
Brazilian System of High Performance Computing

- Reproducibility and Performance of
Deep Learning Applications for Cancer Detection in Pathological Images

### Keynotes

Isabelle Perseil,INSERM: Towards a generic provenance model for Life
science designed as an EOSC service

Javier Garcia-Blas, UC3M, Madrid: Towards data intensive aware
programming models for Exascale systems

## Special Issue on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences (LIFE2019)

Extended versions of selected papers accepted and presented at
CCGrid-Life 2019, after further revisions, will be published in a
special issue of the journal
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), impact factor: 4.639.
The special issue is open for further original work in the field.

More information:

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-clusters-clouds-and-grids-for-life-sciences

## About

Computational methods are nowadays ubiquitous in the field of
bioinformatics and biomedicine. Besides established fields like
molecular dynamics, genomics or neuroimaging, new emerging methods like
deep learning models rely heavily on large scale computational
resources. These new methods need to manage Tbytes or Pbytes of data
with large-scale structural and functional relationships, TFlops or
PFlops of computing power for simulating highly complex models, or
many-task processes and workflows for processing and analyzing data.
Today, many areas in Life Sciences are facing these challenges.
Distributed IT-systems such as Grids, Clouds, Fogs and Big Data
Environments are promising to address research, clinical and medical
research community requirements. They allow for significant reduction of
computational time for running large experiments and for speeding-up
development time for new algorithms. Furthermore, they can increase the
availability of new methods for the research community and reduce
barriers for large-scale multi-centric collaborations. However, specific
challenges in the employment of such systems for biomedical applications
- such as security, reliability and user-friendliness - often impede
straightforward adoption of existing solutions from other application
domains.

This workshop, that has been running for several years now, aims at
bringing together developers of bioinformatics and medical applications
and researchers in the field of distributed IT systems. It addresses
researchers who are already employing distributed infrastructure
techniques in biomedical applications as well as computer scientists
working in the field of distributed systems interested in bringing new
developments into the biomedical area. The goals of the workshop are to
exchange and discuss existing solutions and latest developments in both
fields, and to identify the remaining challenges. The workshop further
intends to identify common requirements to lead future developments in
collaboration between Life Sciences and Computing Sciences. It aims to
explore new ideas and approaches to successfully apply distributed
IT-systems in translational research, clinical intervention, and
decision-making.

# Workshop Chairs
    - Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
    - Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany



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Prof. Dr. Dagmar Krefting

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin
Tel. +49 30 5019-3379 | (Fax +49 30 5019-48-3379)
Dagmar.Krefting at htw-berlin.de | www.htw-berlin.de		

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