Use case title (contact person)
Equaltaxa: Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal? (Dr. Christos Arvanitidis)
In-brief: description the analysis that was carried out
LifeWatchGreece’s Rvlab was used to calculate Taxonomic Distance biodiversity indices on the all marine animals (metazoans) for which information is available in the World Registry of Marine Species (WoRMS)
Comments on how the cluster supported this work
Dimensions of Species classification table: 199819×7
Dimensions of community data table: 199819×30
Wall clock hours : number_cpus : 14.33 : 10; 18.31 : 8
The 640GB RAM available made the Taxonomic Distance biodiversity index calculation possible as more than 200GB RAM were used
Relevant publication if available
Arvanitidis CD, Warwick RM, Somerfield PJ, et al. Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal?. PeerJ Preprint 2018. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.26819
