UC San Diego, Yale To Build Neuroscience Gateway Using Collaborative NSF Grant

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University of California, San Diego and Yale University a collaborative grant by the) to develop a Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) that gives neuroscientists broadened access to essential high-performance computing (HPC) and storage resources.

Under the UC San Diego grant, the university’s San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and its Neuroscience Information Framework project will build 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,” will provide neuroscience users with compute time through a streamlined process via 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 – this includes querying the status and completion of various jobs. The NSG portal, now under development, will be available at www.nsgportal.org. For more information, click here to read the full release.