Genomic research is essential for understanding human health and disease origins, but like any activity that requires sizeable data-set processing, its computational demands are immense. In Latvia, the Riga Technical University High Performance Computing Center (RTU HPC) is leading a shift from traditional scientific computing toward an AI-first model of innovation.

Working alongside the Latvian Biomedical Research & Study centre, the team set out to solve a critical challenge: rapidly process thousands of human genomes using AI, without losing time or control to hardware bottlenecks or foreign cloud vendors.

“Essentially, what we wanted was to accelerate variant calling, the computational process of identifying genetic variations“ Edgars Liepa, Scientific Assistant, LBMC.