Experts from NVIDIA have joined the High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, with the aim of combating Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2
The consortium includes leading technical specialists from the US government, academic institutions, as well as industrial experts from IBM, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft.
The primary mission of the consortium is to accelerate the development of effective methods for the detection and treatment of coronavirus.
The company is ready to provide access to 30 supercomputers with a total capacity of more than 400 Pflops. In addition, NVIDIA experts are ready to share their experience in the fields of artificial intelligence, supercomputer computing, drug research, molecular dynamics, genomics, diagnostic imaging and data analysis.
The company’s blog reports that the working group of NVIDIA specialists is ready to:
- Apply the experience of using artificial intelligence to more efficiently gather and process data;
- Share their many years of experience in research into molecular biology, medical imaging and computational fluid dynamics;
- Scale and optimize the workflow of computer computing.
In addition, the company provides access to its NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) platform for hosting and sharing software related to the areas of artificial intelligence and biomedical research. COVID-19 research tools are publicly available and optimized to work on a wide range of GPU platforms: supercomputers, NVIDIA DGX systems, NGC servers, as well as open cloud GPU platforms and workstations based on NVIDIA Quadro.
The company’s blog also notes that NVIDIA GPUs are already being used in many supercomputers working on and solving problems related to COVID-19.
Scientists are using the world’s fastest Summit supercomputer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to research 77 drug compounds that could be effective in treating the disease. Indeed, when using 27,000 NVIDIA GPUs, a job that could take several years can be completed in just a few days.
A team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (USA) as well as from a number of American national health institutions, using NVIDIA GPUs, created the world’s first three-dimensional atomic map of the spike-like virus protein that clings to human cells. Mapping protein compounds is a critical step the development of effective drugs.
Hundreds of thousands of PC owners with NVIDIA GPUs inside are participating in the Folding@Home project to find a cure for the novel coronavirus. Over 356,000 NVIDIA GPUs are contributing to total computing power of 1.5 exaflops.
HOSTKEY also joined the Folding@Home project. We are donating our unused capacity to help the world community in quickly dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. We believe that by working together we will save countless lives and reduce the damage to the global economy. Also, proven team technologies will contribute to faster scientific advances in the future.
