Speaker
Dr
Tommi Nyrönen
(CSC, Head of ELIXIR Finland)
Description
As Biomedical science data volumes grow, local computational resources to
satisfy need for their processing quickly become insufficient. In addition
to computing services and technical support, users need significant
storage capacities, and access to large reference data to reflect their
findings in the context of the current knowledge. The size of the datasets
in biomedical science like the human genetic variation 1000 Genomes, The
Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Finnish sequencing initiative data are
hundreds of terabytes to petabytes in size and grow rapidly. Data capacity
challenges form a major research bottleneck.
This talk introduces CSC - IT Center for Science (CSC) Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS) cloud concept made in 2011-13 in collaboration with
biomedical research organisations. The services are part of the
construction of the ELIXIR Finland research infrastructure and included in
the national research infrastructure 2014-2020 roadmap. The user
organisations can integrate the resources to the local capacity via
private network connections. Key use cases for the IaaS at present take
place at the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine in the Meilahti
campus connected with a 10 Gbps network connection to CSC cloud services,
for example, in processing of the Finnish sequence data for various
biomedical healthcare applications.
More information: http://www.elixir-europe.org
