SDSC, Neuroscience Information Network Provide Expertise and Computational Resources on XSEDE

UC San Diego and Yale University were awarded a collaborative grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) to give neuroscientists broadened access to essential high-performance computing (HPC) and storage resources. Under the UC San Diego grant, SDSC and its Neuroscience Information Framework project was called on to create a software infrastructure that can be used to make neuroscience-specific compute and software tools conveniently available to students and investigators. The project, called “Advanced Biological Informatics Development: Building A Community Resource for Neuroscientists,” was slated to offer compute time to neuroscience users through a streamlined process using a simple web portal-based environment for uploading models, retrieving and storing data, and specifying the parameters for running high-performance computing (HPC)-based neuronal simulations, including querying the status and completion of various jobs.