Dr. K.M.L. Pathak, Deputy Director General (Animal Science), ICAR inaugurated the High Performance Computing (HPC) system installed at the Computer Center of NBAGR, Karnal on 02.09.2013. The HPC system consists of Linux Cluster with 16 nodes, 20 Terabytes of Network Attached Storage (NFS server), 20 Terabytes of Parallel File System based Storage, and 64 bit Linux Operating System. The system will be used for animal genomics and proteomics studies.
Workshop on ‘Animal Bioinformatics and Genomics Research Programs under National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid (NABG) was also held at National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal on 02.09.2013. DDG (Animal Science) was the Chief Guest in the Workshop. It was attended by Dr. B. K. Joshi, Director, NBAGR, Dr. Arjava Sharma, Project Director, PDC, Meerut, Dr. V. Bhasin, Principal Scientist, ICAR, Dr. Anil Rai, CPI, NAIP-NABG, IASRI, New Delhi, and scientists from IASRI, NBAGR, NDRI, Karnal, IVRI, Izatnagar, CIRB, Hisar, GADVASU, Ludhiana and LLRUVAS, Hisar. The workshop deliberated on research programs to be taken in the areas of Animal Bioinformatics and Genomics to be proposed under the Network Project on Computational Biology and Agricultural Bioinformatics during XII Plan (2012-17).
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