Author Archives: Hugh Martin

European HPC Summit Week 15-19th May 2017

CompBioMed at PRACEdays 2017 16 May 2017, UPC, Barcelona, Spain PRACEdays 2017 is the central event of the European HPC Summit Week held at Barcelona Supercomputing Centre over four days (15th – 18th May 2017). CompBioMed has been allocated a dedicated 4-hour session in the afternoon of the 16th May where we will hold several talks focused…

HITS Colloquium – Implementing Reproducibility in Computational Science

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Victoria Stodden Title: Implementing Reproducibility in Computational Science Date: Monday, 20 February 2017, 11:00 a.m. Location: Carl-Bosch-Auditorium, Studio Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, 69118 Heidelberg (Studio entrance between Villa Bosch and HITS) Short CV: Please see: http://stanford.edu/~vcs/Bio.html Contact: Benedicta Frech (Benedicta.Frech@h-its.org, phone: 06221-533-263) School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign…

CompBioMed Innovation Exchange Program

The European Centre of Excellence in Computational Medicine (CompBioMed) is a focus for technology transfer between academia, healthcare and industry in the field of biomedical computing. In CompBioMed, experts on computational medicine develops simulation and analysis software using the latest techniques to solve complex multi-scale and multi-physics problems. CompBioMed fosters a mentoring programme, the Innovation…

Rapid, accurate, precise and reliable relative free energy prediction using ensemble based thermodynamic integration on SuperMUC

For 37 hours this June the entirety of the 250,000 processor SuperMUC supercomputer (one of the largest computers in the world, located in the Leibniz Rechenzentrum, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, LRZ, near Munich, Germany) was dedicated to simulations investigating how candidate drugs work in a range of disease cases. The study was designed by a team…

CompBioMed Open Access paper published

Agastya Bhati, Shunzou Wan, David Wright, and Peter Coveney, have published a paper in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation titled “Rapid, accurate, precise and reliable relative free energy prediction using ensemble based thermodynamic integration”, you can read more about the related SuperMUC simulations here and about Thermodynamic Integration with Enhanced Sampling here. You…

Cover Article in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Peter Coveney and Shunzhou Wan have published a paper “On the calculation of equilibrium thermodynamic properties from molecular dynamics” in the leading journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The paper appears on the cover of the issue along with the cover image and can be viewed here. The paper establishes the fundamental necessity for performing ensemble…

“Big data need big theory too” Making Waves

The first month of usage data for the Philosophical Transactions A theme issue on “Multiscale modelling at the physics–chemistry–biology interface” is now available. There were a total of 7921 article views in October, over 5000 of which were for Peter Coveney, Edward Dougherty, and Roger Highfield’s paper “Big data need big theory too”.  It’s currently the…