EC Workshop on HPC and Health (October 1-2)

High Performance Computing (HPC) has emerged as a crucial technology in health research allowing fast advances in a series of areas. In particular, HPC allows addressing system challenges such as (1) managing important volume of data, (2) developing and integrating models, (3) ensuring interoperability between model data and (4) allowing easy access to quality data.

The overall objective of the Workshop on High Performance Computing in Health Research was to identify current and future health research needs for HPC and to explore mechanisms of addressing them through co-operation of relevant stakeholders. The workshop brought together high level experts from different health fields, industries, health researchers, and representatives of HPC industries and supercomputing centres. In particular, by bringing the health and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) communities together, including potential users such as clinicians, health IT professionals and carers, it addressed the specific needs of all these actors.

Please find the programme and presentations here

Final EC report on this workshop available here.

ETP4HPC was represented by Bernadette Andrietti from Intel who was a panelist October 2nd in a “Future activities and implementation” discussion – you can see her position statement about HPC technologies for Health below or download it here.