Sano at CCGrid2025: Serverless Computing for Bioinformatics

The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid2025) took place on May 19–22, 2025, in Tromsø, Norway. Sano – Centre for Computational Medicine was represented at the event by Piotr Kica, Scientific Programmer in the Extreme-scale Data and Computing team. During the poster session, he presented the work titled “Serverless Approach to Running Resource-Intensive STAR Aligner”, co-authored with Michał Orzechowski and Maciej Malawski, the team’s Research Leader of Extreme-scale Data and Computing.

The presented work is part of the research activities carried out within the NearData project – a European initiative supporting the development of trusted technologies for processing sensitive data. The team explored the use of serverless architectures to run compute-intensive bioinformatics tools, such as the STAR aligner for RNA sequence processing.

CCGrid is a leading global conference on distributed computing systems, cloud infrastructure, and edge technologies. It brings together researchers and practitioners to explore challenges and advances in fields such as AI, data security, and sustainable computing. The program featured keynotes, technical presentations, poster sessions, workshops, the SCALE challenge, and the co-located ICFEC conference.