The National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) Singapore and Global Gene Corp (GGC), genomics platform company backed by EDB Singapore, exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to benefit the future of Singapore’s Precision Medicine Initiative. The collaboration allows GGC to leverage NSCC’s High Performance Computing (HPC) platform for genomics applications and for NSCC to tap on GGC’s expertise to create the next generation supercomputing infrastructure which will benefit genomics and the precision medicine initiative in Singapore. Read more in the Media Release.
Stakeholders of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore aim to build on its early growth momentum to elevate supercomputing in Singapore into the next phase. This includes dovetailing NSCC’s future plans into the S$19 billion national RIE2020 masterplan, said Peter Ho, Chairman of NSCC Steering Committee. Giving the opening address at the third edition of the Supercomputing Frontiers (SCF) Conference yesterday, Mr Ho observed that “Singapore is only at the start of developing and implementing a HPC strategic roadmap”. Read more in the Media Release.