Joint de.KCD & 8th de.NBI Cloud User Meeting

30 Sept 2025, 11:00 → 2 Oct 2025, 13:30 Europe/Berlin

FSB GmbH Fachinstitut für Steuerrecht und Betriebswirtschaft

Nils Hoffmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Peter Belmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

For more than 7 years, the de.NBI Cloud has provided free of charge computing resources to the life sciences community in Germany. Scientists involved in various research topics, such as metagenomics, medical imaging, epigenetics, and plant biology benefit from the opportunities provided by the de.NBI Cloud.

With our annual user meeting, we would like to highlight topics of interest to our user community.

This year, we are teaming up with the Jülich Supercomputing Center, de.KCD, and BIH/Charité, offering a mix of courses for trainers, beginners and advanced users and opportunities to engage with experts on diverse cloud computing topics.

The de.NBI Cloud User Meeting supports the interaction with our growing community. Thus, we would like to hear from you about the specific needs of the scientific life sciences community, allowing us to shape the future of the de.NBI Cloud according to sophisticated and specialized use cases.

The de.NBI Cloud User Meeting will be held as an in person event in Berlin from September 30th - October 2nd 2025.

We look forward to welcoming you in Berlin!

Registration Deadline: Friday, September 5th 2025

Datenschutzerklärung_CLUM_2025.pdf

Tuesday 30 September

11:00 → 12:00 Registration

12:00 → 13:00 Snacks & Beverages

13:00 → 13:15 Keynotes: Opening

Convener: Nils Hoffmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

13:15 → 13:45 Keynotes: Keynote:

Convener: Prof. Fabian Praßer (BIH - Charité, Medizininformatik)

14:00 → 15:30 DevOps: Kubernetes Service Deployment & Operations Part 1

Convener: Burkhard Linke (JLU Gießen)

14:00 → 15:30 Reproducibility, Workflows & HPC: Packaging & Reproducibility with Conda & Biocontainers

Convener: Dr Björn Grüning (University of Freiburg)

14:00 → 15:30 Working with VMs: Virtual Machines in the Cloud: Linux and Command Line Introduction

Conveners: Nils Hoffmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Peter Belmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 18:00 DevOps: Kubernetes Service Deployment & Operations Part 2

Convener: Burkhard Linke (Justus-Liebig University Gießen)

16:00 → 18:00 Working with VMs: Machine Learning: Data Processing with LLMs Part 1

Conveners: Foo Wei Ten (BIH - Charité), Martin Braun (BIH - Charité)

16:00 → 18:00 Working with VMs: Virtual Machines in the Cloud: SimpleVM Introduction

Conveners: Nils Hoffmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Peter Belmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

19:00 → 22:00 Self paid Dinner

Wednesday 1 October

09:00 → 09:30 Keynotes: Dr. Peter Brunecker, BIH - Charité, Health Data Platform und MeDIC (Datenintegrationszentrum) – Research Data Management

Convener: Dr Peter Brunecker (BIH - Charité, Health Data Platform & MeDIC)

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee Break

10:00 → 12:00 DevOps: Securing a web service in OpenStack Securing a web service in OpenStack with internal network and reverse proxy Part 1

Conveners: Jakob Mathis (BIH - Charité), Max Boshof (BIH - Charité)

10:00 → 12:00 RDM & Training: Best practices in cloud-based RDM

Conveners: Abhijeet Shah (FZ Jülich), Dr Sebastian Jünemann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

10:00 → 12:00 Working with VMs: Machine Learning: Document Processing wigh LLMs Part 2

Conveners: Foo Wei Ten (BIH - Charité), Martin Braun (BIH - Charité)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:30 DevOps: Securing a web service in OpenStack Securing a web service in OpenStack with internal network and reverse proxy Part 2

Conveners: Jakob Mathis (BIH - Charité), Max Boshof (BIH - Charité)

13:00 → 14:30 RDM & Training: Jupyter-Hub-as-a-Service (JHaaS) for Courses

Convener: Nils Mittler (Justus-Liebig University Gießen)

13:00 → 14:30 Reproducibility, Workflows & HPC: Introduction to HPC Part 1

Convener: Jolanta Zjupa (JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 18:00 DevOps: Terraform

Convener: Sanjay Kumar Srikakulam (FZ Jülich)

15:00 → 18:00 Reproducibility, Workflows & HPC: Introduction to HPC Part 2

Convener: Jolanta Zjupa (JSC, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

15:00 → 18:00 Working with VMs: SimpleVM for Advanced Use Cases

Conveners: Nils Hoffmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Peter Belmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Thursday 2 October

09:00 → 09:30 Keynotes: Processing sensitive research data in the (de.NBI) cloud

Convener: Dr Sven Twardziok (BIH - Charité)

09:30 → 10:00 Coffee Break

10:00 → 12:00 DevOps: Ansible & BiBiGrid SLURM - Grid / Cluster

Conveners: Jan Krüger (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Xaver Stiensmeier (University of Bielefeld)

10:00 → 12:00 Reproducibility, Workflows & HPC: Workflows with Snakemake & WESkit

Conveners: Landfried Kraatz (BIH - Charité), Valentin Schneider-Lunitz (BIH - Charité)

10:00 → 12:00 Reproducibility, Workflows & HPC: Workflows with the Common Workflow Language - CWL

Convener: Michael R. Crusoe (FU Berlin)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:30 Keynotes: Closing

Conveners: Nils Hoffmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Peter Belmann (Forschungszentrum Jülich)