Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Scientific Computing

The Laboratory conducts research and development work on the processes of conducting and supporting scientific calculations and the organization of scientific data. The Science Gateways portals elaborated by the Laboratory employees create the possibility of establishing cooperation with external entities: Polish and foreign.

The Laboratory tasks are also focused on:

• implementation of research grants and industrial orders,
• using expert knowledge to solve problems requiring the use of various computing resources, e.g. machine learning technology,
• popularization of calculations using the tools created by the Laboratory among users,
• essential support for users, realized among others by monitoring needs, developing documentation, and conducting training.

The team of the Laboratory, previously co-creating the Laboratory of Data Processing, developed the proprietary InSilicoLab programming environment, which includes a set of advanced tools and programming libraries that allow for the construction and development of dedicated research portals. Portals based on InSilicoLab are designed in such a way as to gather in one place all the tools that researchers need for in silico calculations. The main advantages are:

• easy running of the user experiments, even if they are complex, long and require many calculations,
• the ability to conveniently describe, categorize and search for input or output data.

The InSilicoLab technology is distinguished by striving for the greatest possible usability of the tools built with the help of the environment. This sphere includes both the usefulness for solving scientific problems in a given field, as well as the user-friendliness of the portal for its end-user.

The effects of the Laboratory team cooperation with renowned scientific and research units as part of Polish and international projects include the development of the EPISODES Platform (https://tcs.ah-epos.eu/) as part of a series of projects related to the European Plate Observing System - EPOS (https://www.epos-eu.org/). The portal and the tools organized around it are focused on the study and analysis of seismicity and other phenomena caused by human activity (e.g. exploitation of resources within a mine, creation of artificial water reservoirs). The portal is integrated with the European EPOS infrastructure.

Contact: Joanna Kocot, j.kocot [at] cyfronet.pl