The "Open Molecular Science Cloud" Workshop report

Abstract

On Agust 29, 2018, the Board of the CTC (Computational and Theoretical Chemistry) Division of EuChemS during its meeting in Liverpool deliberated to hold the CTC 2019 European Conference (EUCO 2019) in Perugia (IT) from Sept 1 to Sept 5 (to be chaired by A. Laganà (AL)) and have a special focus on Open Molecular Science Cloud (OMSC)). On the same day, at the Symposium “Methods of computational chemistry: challenges and new developments” held in the same place, D. Crawford (DC) presented the activities of the US Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) having also a strong OMSC connotation. During the discussion that followed, AL proposed to organize a joint OMSC workshop by side to the CTC EUCO 2019. On Apr 8, 2019 the MolSSI Board of Directors approved the application submitted by AL and deliberated to financially support the joint OMSC workshop and the participation of up to 7 Early Stage Researchers (ESR)s from US. [...]