BioExcel Webinar #12 - How to choose compute resources for your team

BioExcel’s webinar series continued on 8th March with Lee Larcombe from ELIXIR-UK and the University of Edinburgh, who took us through the benefits and challenges of using local compute resources. Starting from some things to consider when resourcing your research, to what can feasibly be done on a laptop or desktop computer, a workstation, up to a local clusters. What considerations need to be taken into account, CPU, memory, storage, network speed and importantly, how to recognise when you have hit the limits of local computing.