Revolutionizing life sciences research with HPC

Vienna BioCenter is a leading life sciences campus in Europe with 2,685 staff and 141 research groups, combining fundamental research and applied sciences with cutting-edge facilities offering the latest technologies to advance the understanding of biomedical processes. Vienna BioCenter was founded by five research institutions to innovate and accelerate interdisciplinary collaboration. The effort is driven by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), the largest Austrian non-university institution for science and research with 25 research institutes, two of which are founding partners of the Vienna BioCenter. Additional partners include the University of Vienna, the Medical University of Vienna, and the global, research-driven pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.

To help tackle the toughest research questions, Vienna BioCenter established the Cloud Infrastructure Platform (CLIP), a high-performance computing (HPC) service currently used by 14 research institutes and open to researchers around the world. One of Austria’s largest supercomputer clusters, CLIP offers an advanced and easy-to-use cloud service with over 400 standard tools for high energy physics, subatomic physics, mathematics, sound mechanics, space exploration, and the full array of life sciences.