A new consortium will make 16 of the mega number-crunchers available, including Summit, the planet's most powerful supercomputer.
The U.S. is making 16 supercomputers available to researchers worldwide to help identify therapies and vaccines related to the coronavirus. Supercomputers can process vast datasets and conduct complex simulations of molecules’ behavior much faster than other hardware, so the hope is this will help turbocharge efforts to combat the virus.
Members of the consortium include several U.S. Department of Energy national labs, including Lawrence Livermore, Sandia and Oak Ridge, which is the home of Summit. The consortium also includes MIT and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as NASA and the National Science Foundation. Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are also part of the consortium and are offering their cloud-based services to accelerate research work.via a website
. These will be reviewed by experts in high-performance computing, biology and other areas, who will select the most promising ones. IBM, which has helped build a number of the supercomputers involved, is coordinating the consortium’s work. “America is coming together to fight COVID-19, and that means unleashing the full capacity of our world-class supercomputers to rapidly advance scientific research for treatments and a vaccine,” said Michael Kratsios, the U.S.’s chief technology officer, in a statement announcing the consortium’s creation.: 330 petaflops. That’s the combined processing power of the 16 supercomputers and it means they are collectively capable of performing 330 million billion calculations a second.
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