A £2 million-pound high-performance computing (HPC) system at the University of Hull is playing a crucial role in enabling COVID-19 research
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AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund delivers supercomputing to researchers
02 June 2020
AMD and Penguin Computing have donated systems totalling seven petaflops of compute power to researchers as part of the AMD HPC Fund for COVID-19 research.
Air Flow Simulation reduces COVID-19 propagation risk
21 May 2020
Airflow simulation software from Dassault Systèmes was recently used for a collaborative project to reduce the risk of virus propagation inside the St Francis Hospital in Marange-Silvange in northeastern France
CLOUD at CERN reveals a new mechanism behind urban smog
21 May 2020
CERN has announced that its CLOUD collaboration has revealed a new mechanism that drives winter smog episodes in cities
Optibrium adopts cheminformatics toolkits from OpenEye Scientific
12 May 2020
Optibrium and OpenEye Scientific (OpenEye), have announced integration between their two software platforms to provide scientists with new added funcionality for small molecule drug discovery
Hyperion report highlights costs of HPC storage
07 May 2020
A research report from Hyperion Research, commissioned by Panasas, has found that that total cost of ownership (TCO) is rising as a top criterion for purchasing high-performance computing (HPC) storage systems.
NERSC finalises supercomputer contract
06 May 2020
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the mission high-performance computing facility for the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has moved another step closer to making Perlmutter — its next-generation GPU-accelerated supercomputer — available to the science community in 2020.
PRACE awards 195 Million core hours to further research into SARS-CoV-2
28 April 2020
PRACE is joining the battle against COVID-19 by providing 195 000 000 core hours – to the first ten research projects awarded under the Fast Track Call for Proposals to support the mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Transforming a clinical lab into a COVID-19 ready lab
22 April 2020
L7 Informatics and Contamination Source Identification (CSI) have announced a partnership to accelerate the implementation of testing for COVID-19 patient screening
Upgrades for LLNL supercomputer aid COVID-19 research
22 April 2020
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will get an upgrade to its Corona supercomputer through an agreement with Penguin Computing and AMD that is expected to nearly double the system’s peak compute power
Elsevier and ExactCure reviewing 20 approved drugs for COVID-19 therapies
16 April 2020
Elsevier and ExactCure have announced a new collaboration aimed at developing personalised model simulations that will improve the dosing of COVID-19 related therapies
Google Cloud announces support for COVID-19 research
15 April 2020
In a recent blog post, Google Cloud outlined the steps the company is taking to help researchers to understand more about the novel coronavirus
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