EU13 and HPC Underrepresented Countries. The CompBioMed Centre of Excellence is targeting HPC underrepresented and EU13 countries in its activities, primarily through our network of partners and via events. Our Associate Partner network contains a growing list of partners from HPC-poor and EU13 countries: • PSNC – Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland • Zayed University, United Arab Emirates • Pozlab, Poland • The Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, Poland • Sano, Poland • KINDI, Centre for Computing Research, Qatar • Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia • DiaVita, Bulgaria • Qatar Robotic Surgery Centre (QRSC), Qatar • Russian-Armenian University, Armenia We are also in talks with Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Croatia Data Centre of Excellence to bring them in as an associate partner. Our original intention with CBMC21 was for it to be held in Greece to encourage participation from EU13 and HPC underrepresented countries, but the pandemic forced us to take the event online. Nonetheless, we expended a great deal of effort in identifying contacts in EU13 and HPC underrepresented countries that might take an interest in our activities in computational biomedicine, finding 212 in total. We have been disseminating our webinars, CBMC21 activity and other activity to these contacts. At CBMC21 we had talks from EU13 and HPC underrepresented countries: • Xxxx Xxxxxx, Universidade de São Paulo • Alya Arabi, United Arab Emirates University • Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, ACC Cyfronet AGH • Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Budapest University of Technology and Economics • Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center The CBMC21 attendees were from all over the globe, including the following EU13 and HPC underrepresented countries: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Pakistan, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Armenia, Aruba, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, India, Congo Kinshasa, Philippines, Colombia, Sierra Leone, Mexico. Our intention remains to hold a major event such as the third CompBioMed Conference in an EU13 or HPC underrepresented country. As mentioned in the previous section, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx (UCL) gave a talk on “Introducing CompBioMed for HPC for the Greek Health & Life Sciences Sector” at the EuroCC Greece Chapter meeting 2021. We will continue to engage with EuroCC and NCCs.
