Atos supercomputers support global coronavirus research in Brazil

Belonging to Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica and SENAI CIMATEC, the substantial-effectiveness desktops Santos Dumont and Ogbon, both of those produced by Atos, are being employed on scientific studies for the advancement of medications and vaccines from COVID-19

 

Brazil, 27 April 2020

Atos, a worldwide chief in digital transformation, announces that two of its supercomputers in Brazil are being employed in exploration for the advancement of vaccines and drugs from the coronavirus. These are Santos Dumont, which belongs to the Countrywide Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), and Ogbon, at SENAI CIMATEC. The supercomputers are considered the biggest in Brazil and in South The us and are in the Prime five hundred checklist of the most strong supercomputers in the planet. The initiative is led by the Chemistry Section at Stanford University, in the United States.

The intention is to lead to the Folding@house task, coordinated by the University, which scientific studies the evolution of the coronavirus in the human system, based mostly on the conversation of viral proteins, which opens the way for the advancement of certain vaccines and medications. Owing to their substantial effectiveness and capacity, the two supercomputers are preferably situated to lead to this sort of exploration. They can be employed for parallel processing, intricate calculations and intensive and intense jobs – procedures that desire quadrillions of calculations for every 2nd.

Santos Dumont, put in at LNCC, in Rio de Janeiro, aims to have sixty{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of its capacity focused to the Folding@house task, which is 2 petaflops (equal to the computational capacity of 2 million laptops doing the job collectively). Ogbon, found at the SENAI CIMATEC Supercomputing Heart, in Salvador, aims to have fifty{744e41c82c0a3fcc278dda80181a967fddc35ccb056a7a316bb3300c6fc50654} of its capacity devoted to exploration, which corresponds to one petaflops (or one million laptops).

“Our objective is to link people today, technological know-how and corporations to assistance make improvements to the planet in which we live. The use of our supercomputers in the struggle from Covid-19’s progression is particularly this. We are quite proud to provide substantial-effectiveness technological know-how to support and build exploration that can help you save tens of millions of lives”, states Luis Casuscelli, Director of Large Facts and Cybersecurity at Atos in South The us. “Atos machines have previously supported LNCC experts to detect the resource of the virus’s entry, and to detect that just about every different resource has a different attribute –which will support experts and researchers build more productive vaccines.”

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide chief in digital transformation with in excess of 110,000 staff in seventy three nations and yearly revenue of in excess of € eleven billion. European selection 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-Efficiency Computing, the Group offers close-to-close Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Facts, Business enterprise Applications and Electronic Workplace answers. The team is the Globally Facts Technological know-how Associate for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates below the makes Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The objective of Atos is to assistance layout the upcoming of the details technological know-how place. Its abilities and companies support the advancement of understanding, education as very well as multicultural and pluralistic methods to exploration that lead to scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the planet, the team permits its shoppers, staff and collaborators, and users of societies at significant to live, function and build sustainably and confidently in the details technological know-how place.

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