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!