Are you a student or academic, current or future user of the GenomeDK high-performance computing (HPC) system? Or are you just curious about HPC and how you can utilize it in your work? Do you need to learn to use GenomeDK, or wish to become a better and more organized user?

Then join us in this series of GenomeDK workshops where we guide you from a general introduction to advanced usage. Each workshop targets increasing difficulty levels, so you can join the sessions that fit you best.

In 2026, the billing rate for GenomeDK compute usage will increase from 0.12 DKK to 0.13 DKK per billing hour.

All other prices remain unchanged.

The GenomeDK Desktop provides graphical access to GenomeDK right in your browser, without the need to install any software on your own computer.

Until recently, the solution only provided access to our frontends where resources are limited, but it still proved to be incredibly popular for the many users that use GenomeDK for light analysis and viewing results of pipeline runs. It looks something like this:

We have now revamped the desktop solution and introduced a range of features to make the desktop even more convenient and powerful.

The first series of workshops was a great success, so we’re doing another round!

Are you a student or academic, current or future user of the GenomeDK high-performance computing (HPC) system? Or are you just curious about HPC and how you can utilize it in your work? Do you need to learn to use GenomeDK, or wish to become a better and more organized user?

Then join us in this series of GenomeDK workshops where we guide you from a general introduction to advanced usage. Each workshop targets increasing difficulty levels, so you can join the sessions that fit you best.

We hope you’ve had a good summer break. As we return to our regular routines, we’d like to share a few important updates and announcements from GenomeDK:

• HPC review process at AU: we need your support!
• 10 PB storage expansion now in production and available to all users.
• All DeIC projects GenomeDK end on April 1, 2026.

Thank you for being part of the GenomeDK community!

Best regards,

The GenomeDK Team

We’d like to thank Samuele Soraggi for contributing this use case, based on the long-running summer school in NGS data analysis, organized by Mikkel H. Schierup, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, and Samuele himself. Supporting this kind of high-impact training – where students gain experience with real data in a practical setting – really showcases the flexibility of the GenomeDK infrastructure.

Unlike what the name, GenomeDK, might suggest, we have users from a wide range of fields, including those that are not related to genomes!

We are therefore very happy to present this slightly unusual use-case from Sina Nozarian, a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical & Production Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences (Tech) at Aarhus University.

Sina is supervised by associate professors Pourya Forooghi and Mahdi Abkar, and is currently on a research mobility stay at TU Wien (in Vienna), collaborating with Professor Alfredo Soldati specifically on the topic presented here.

Welcome to 2025 and yet another newsletter from GenomeDK! You’re busy, so here are the highlights:

• Workshop series for getting started with HPC on GenomeDK now open for sign-up.
• Announcing the GenomeDK Desktop - a browser-based virtual desktop solution for accessing GenomeDK.
• Growing our storage capacity in 2025!

In 2024, we ran 13.5 mio. jobs totalling 62.5 mio. core-hours. We’re also happy to have welcomed 311 new users to GenomeDK!

Are you a student or academic, current or future user of the GenomeDK high-performance computing (HPC) system? Or are you just curious about HPC and how you can utilize it in your work? Do you need to learn to use GenomeDK, or wish to become a better and more organized user?

Then join us in this series of GenomeDK workshops where we guide you from a general introduction to advanced usage. Each workshop targets increasing difficulty levels, so you can join the sessions that fit you best.

The team of the Accessible Bioinformatics Cafe and the GenomeDK team invites you to the workshop “Use GenomeDK”.

• Date and time: Thursday, October 10th, 11:00-15:00
• Location: Building 1540, room K26.

We will cover the following topics:

• Login and public-key authentication
• File systems
• Basic commands
• Project management
• File transfers and downloading data
• Software installation and management

There will be a break for questions and lunch (not included) at 12, and again more time for questions and problem solving during the workshop. The only prerequisite is to have a working account on GenomeDK and a laptop - any extra knowledge is of course welcomed.

You can sign up by filling out the signup form.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Samuele Soraggi.

Summer is approaching (in a very wet fashion here in Aarhus) quickly and so it’s time for another newsletter.

We are thrilled to welcome 175 new users to the GenomeDK community (so far) this year! Whether you’re a researcher, student, academic clinician, or company, we are excited to support your data-driven endeavors, and wish you a very nice summer!

In the wake of the recent announcement from the Institute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, where the use of Chinese sequencing companies and collaboration with Chinese universities was prohibited, many with sequencing needs must find alternatives.

We are happy to distribute this announcement from our close collaborators at the MOMA NGS Core Facility. Note that the MOMA NGS Core Facility can deliver your sequencing data directly to a project folder on GenomeDK.

We’re now well into 2024 and it’s time for the 10th edition of the newsletter. 2023 was probably one of the most transformative and busy years in the history of GenomeDK. In this newsletter we’ll touch on some of the big events. We’ll also provide you with some tips for keeping track of your usage of GenomeDK.

“The description fairly presents how IT general controls in relation to Aarhus Genome Data Center’s GenomeDK HPC services were designed and implemented throughout the period from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023;”

These are the words from our independent, external auditor following this year’s audit. We are happy to say that GenomeDK passed the audit with flying colors and have now, for the third year in a row, obtained a ISAE 3000 declaration with a focus on ISO 27001.

What does this mean? It means that the auditor has found that our policies, procedures, and controls with regards to information security have been found suitable and adequate by the auditor.

The ISAE 3000 declaration, supplemented by our ISO 27001 certification, highlights how seriously we take security.

It’s no exaggeration to say that GenomeDK is growing in almost all aspects, in particular thanks to our very productive and dedicated user base, and substantial extra funding from DeiC and the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

In this newsletter we will explore the changes that have already happened, and are going to happen, in 2023.

It’s 2023 and we finally have a news section. The news section will be a mix of announcements, newsletters, press releases, technical posts, and short updates. Downtimes will still only be announced on the status page and via e-mail.

Previous newsletters have been added to this section already, so if you want you can take a trip down memory lane.

Stay tuned, we’ll have plenty of news this year!

Hello!

We’ve entered the year 2023 and so it’s time for another newsletter.

In 2022 we were happy to welcome 188 new users. 124 new projects were created. You also all managed to spend 28 mio. billing hours spread over 15 mio. jobs!

Hello everybody,

Summer is upon us and so it is time for yet another newsletter from your favourite HPC facility.

The past 12 months you all submitted 15.7 mio. jobs that used a total of 30 mio. billing hours. At the moment we have 625 active users.

Hello!

First of all, happy New Year! We hope that you’ve enjoyed the holidays.

In 2021 you all submitted 19 mio. jobs and used 21 mio. billing hours worth of compute. During the year, storage usage grew from 7.5 PB to 9.6 PB, and peaked at 10 PB.

Last, but not least, welcome to the 200 users that joined us during 2021!

Hello!

Summer is upon us and so it has become time for the 2021 summer newsletter. There’s plenty to cover this time as the past six months have been both eventful and busy at GenomeDK.

Hello!

Welcome back from a well-deserved Christmas vacation.

This time we will cover a few important changes to the queueing system that will be introduced over the coming months. We also look back at some of the work that has been done to reorganize our storage. And then we are now a DeiC national HPC facility! Read more below.

Hello!

It’s time for the summer edition of your favourite newsletter! We’ve had a strange spring where COVID-19 forced most of us to work from home. However, that didn’t stop you from using GenomeDK, as we’ll see later.

Hello!

We’re back from winter vacation and it’s time for a new GenomeDK newsletter.

Enjoy!

Hello!

We’re quickly approaching summer vacation here in Denmark, so this is probably a good time to take a look at the past year at GenomeDK.

We’ve collected numbers that demonstrate how we’re growing, how the cluster is used, and who the users are and where they come from. We also have a few tips for you, as well as updates from the last year.