Sérgio F. Sousa, Tatiana Vieira and Fábio Martins present their work at the 13th Iberian Grid Conference – IBERGRID 2024. This event held from October 28-30, 2024, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, brought together researchers and professionals from Portugal and Spain to explore innovations in distributed computing, digital twins, and open science.
The event kicked off with a focus on Digital Twins applied to geophysical extremes, showcasing the DT-GEO project’s role in forecasting natural disasters. Notable figures, including Isabel Campos from CSIC and Jorge Gomes from LIP, emphasized the importance of Iberian collaboration in science and technology during the official opening.
Over the three days, participants delved into topics such as EuroHPC’s role in industry, application development for the European Open Science Cloud, and AI’s impact on healthcare and environmental modeling. Tutorials on Kubernetes and quantum computing were particularly popular among attendees.
The conference, themed “Better Software for Better Science,” covered a wide range of topics, including research applications in advanced digital infrastructures, innovative software services, and the development of data lakes.
IBERGRID was created under the agreement of Scientific and Technological cooperation signed by Spain and Portugal in 2003 and the collaboration agreements signed in 2005 in terms of Grid Technologies and Communication Networks for R&D. The main goal is to reinforce the collaboration between both countries to support the joint participation in international initiatives and infrastructures of distributed computing and digital repositories among which the European Grid Infrastructure and the European Open Science Cloud.
Sergio F. Sousa presented an invited oral communication entitled “Development of Multi-Level Biomolecular Simulation Protocols for Aptamer Engineering for Biomedical Applications”, highlighting the importance of HPC resources in aptamer engineering, based on work developed at BioSIM:
Tatiana Vieira presented an oral communication entitled “Use of HPC Resources to Find New Drugs Against Biofilm Formation.
Fábio Martins also presented an oral communication entitled “Use of HPC Computing for Accelerating Drug Discovery Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 S-RDB/ACE2 Interaction”.
