Conveners
EGI collaboration with the Human Brain Project for neuroinformatics
- Sean Hill (EPFL)
- Tiziana Ferrari (EGI.EU)
Description
The aim of the Human Brain Project (HBP) is to accelerate our understanding of the human brain by integrating global neuroscience knowledge and data into supercomputer-based models and simulations. This will be achieved, in part, by engaging the European and global research communities using six collaborative ICT platforms: Neuroinformatics, Brain Simulation, High Performance Computing, Medical Informatics, High Performance Computing, Neuromorphic Computing and Neurorobotics.
The cloud and high throughput computing requirements will be discussed with a focus on the use case for remote interactive multiresolution visualization of large volumetric datasets. Large amounts of image stacks or volumetric data are produced daily at brain research sites around the world. This includes human brain imaging data in clinics, connectome data in research studies, whole brain imaging with light-sheet microscopy and tissue clearing methods or micro-optical sectioning techniques, two-photon imaging, array tomography, and electron beam microscopy.
A key challenge in make such data available is to make it accessible without moving large amounts of data. Typical dataset sizes can reach in the terabyte range, while a researcher may want to only view or access a small subset of the entire dataset.
WHOM SHOULD ATTEND?
* NGIs cloud providers interested in how HBP can benefit from cloud provisioning for its big data integration needs and willing to support HBP
* technology providers interested in offering solutions and participating to tests
* members of the Federated Data Virtual Team
