Abstract
Research is being actively conducted for finding solutions to improve healthcare, precision medicine, and personalized medicine. Today’s biomedical research increasingly relies on computing power, particularly high-performance computing (HPC), and simultaneously involves researchers from a diverse range of research backgrounds. However, HPC is evolving rapidly toward a more heterogeneous architecture as we enter the exascale computing era, which unavoidably involves increased technical complexity. To better serve end users in the biomedical application community, we integrate software and hardware resources to develop the biomedical application community on the China National Grid (CNGrid). The biomedical application community is a web-based computing service for many biomedical research-related applications, including drug development, personalized medicine, bioinformatics, and computational chemistry. It exposes computational resources provided by the CNGrid and masks the underlying complex cyberinfrastructure, enabling user-friendly and easily accessible services to end users in the biomedical community. Our service is currently available free of charge at http://biomed.cngrid.org/.
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He, L., Liu, Q., Zhang, B. et al. Biomedical application community based on China high-performance computing environment. CCF Trans. HPC 4, 75–85 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42514-022-00088-x
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