Computational Biophysics Workshops
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Computational Biophysics
Modeling the molecular processes of biological cells is a craft and an art. Techniques like theoretical and computational skills can be learnt by training, but meaningful applications are achieved only with experience and sensitivity. The Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group offered a series of workshops, attempting to teach both the craft and art of modeling through learning by doing. Over 120 participants attended workshops held in the cities of Perth, Urbana, Boston, Lake Tahoe, Chicago, and San Francisco. Participants learned how to stretch proteins, pull water through molecular channels, mine genomic data, and study their favorite biomolecules. After lectures and discussions in the morning, afternoons were devoted to hands-on computer laboratories where participants delved into 300 pages of tutorials, on laptops humming with computational biology software, e.g., VMD and NAMD. Learn more about each workshop by following the links below:
These day and a half workshops help users and system administrators explore how to specify, design, build, and deploy PC Clusters running Linux, and even determine if a cluster is right for a specific application. Following a discussion of clustering basics, participants actually built their own PC cluster and got to test out their own applications. The workshops were aimed at systems administrators wanting a greater understanding of cluster technologies, as well as those end-users that want to better understand the systems that they work on for their day-to-day work. All cluster building workshops were held in Urbana, Illinois, at the Beckman Institute.
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