The Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now a key resource in the fight against the pandemic. According to UT News, Frontera recently enabled researchers to begin to develop a 200-million-atom computer model of the coronavirus that they expect will give insight into how it infects the body.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), one of the leading academic supercomputing centers in the nation, has always supplied computing time for emergencies, such as the H1N1 flu outbreak and during hurricane responses, UT News said.
“The consortium offers researchers an opportunity to collaborate in ways they might not have done, such as by helping each other get their code up and running more quickly on the processors,” Kelly Gaither, director of health analytics at TACC, said in a statement.“This encourages scientists from disparate specialties to link up and solve problems in new ways and to think creatively about how to incorporate supercomputers into their research.”
The new High-Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, a public-private partnership, will provide researchers with massive computing resources as they combat the virus.consortium. COVID-19 researchers are encouraged to submit proposals through a central portal, which a steering committee will review in order to connect researchers with the right HPC resources.
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