Open Data and Cloud Computing National Initiative in Bulgaria

On December 9, 2021, nine scientific organizations signed an Agreement establishing the National Open Data and Cloud Computing Initiative (ODCC) in order to create synergies at national level between organizations with a role and interest in the European Open Science Cloud ( EOSC); integration of open data infrastructures (storage) and cloud computing (services) in the…

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Presentation of the HPC center at IICT, 21 September 2021

The HPC center at IICT has been presented by its Director, Prof. Emanouil Atanassov, at the opening of the international Workshop on Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing, September 20-23, 2021, Sofia, Bulgaria (http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/NSSC21/SciProgram_NSSC2021.pdf), organized by the IICT, IMI, JINR-Dubna, Russia, and UMB. Prof. Atanassov presented the status and perspective of the HPC Centre and outlined…

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PRACE AUTUMN SCHOOL 2021 (online): Fundamentals of biomolecular simulations and virtual drug development, September 20-24, 2021

The HPC Autumn School 2021: „Fundamentals of Biomolecular Modelling and Simulations for Applied Research and Virtual Drug Development” is organised by BioExcel Centre of Excellence, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, NCSA Bulgaria, and Sofia University and in partnership with AstraZeneca and NostrumBiodiscovery. The week-long training event will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of modern methods for biomolecular simulations – molecular dynamics (MD), 3D QSAR,…

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International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage—DiPP2021, 23-25 September 2021

The Eleventh International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage—DiPP2021 aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage. The main focus is to provide open access to digitised cultural…

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Towards the realization of national Open Science Cloud ecosystems in the Southeastern Europe (SEE)

A National Open Science Cloud Initiative (NOSCI) is envisaged as a coalition of national organizations that have a prominent role and interest in the Europe Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The main aim of NOSCI will be the promotion of synergies at national level, and the optimization/articulation of their participation to European and global challenges in…

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Meeting with representatives of Distributed System of Scientific Collections – BG (DiSSCo – BG)

Today, March 1, 2021, a second meeting between the team of IICT’s Center for High-Performance Computing and representatives of the Bulgarian consortium DiSSCo – BG (https://www.dissco.eu/bg/) was held in the IICT-BAS premises. During the meeting, a demonstration of HPC services and data repositories was done and the provision of the specific HPC services for biodiversity…

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EC funded NI4OS-Europe project contributes to the vision of the European Open Science Cloud, delivering its first integrated resources on its platform

HORIZON2002 NI4OS-Europe project brings scientific communities one step closer to the Open Science Cloud and Open Innovation vision, with the on-boarding of 19 new services to its digital service catalogue. NI4OS-Europe – National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe, is a key contributor to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), an integrated, interoperable digital environment…

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