Paris, June 17, 2020
Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, nowadays announces that the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)’s supercomputer, named ROMEO, is now currently being made use of to search for new molecules able of neutralizing the virus that leads to COVID-19. The supercomputer is based mostly on Atos’ BullSequana architecture.
ROMEO is currently being made use of as portion of the HT-Covid software, initiated by Reims Molecular Chemistry Institute (ICMR), joint analysis unit URCA/CNRS, and chosen by the French Countrywide Research Agency (ANR) to take part in the battle versus Covid-19. Established up in just one 7 days, this huge-scale multi-disciplinary virtual screening undertaking aims to establish, about the subsequent eighteen months, molecules that could inhibit the SARS CoV-two virus.
ROMEO’s computing power enables researchers functioning on this undertaking to test hundreds of molecules for every day. Primarily based on the 3D structure of the molecule and the target protein, ROMEO is capable to simulate at higher-speed the action that the molecule could have on the protein, and therefore establish which molecules would be capable to bind to the target protein. These potential ‘candidates’ will then be synthesized, purified and examined below ‘real conditions’.
With ROMEO, GENCI’s supercomputer set up at CINES (Countrywide Laptop or computer Heart for Increased Education) and that of the IN2P3 Computing Centre of the CNRS (French Countrywide Centre for Scientific Research), researchers have previously succeeded in screening practically a lot more than 1.five billion molecules.
Guillaume Gellé President of URCA, stated: “We’re happy to be portion of this analysis undertaking to support aid the world battle versus COVID-19. With ROMEO’s broad computing power researchers have previously been capable to test between two hundred,000 and three hundred,000 molecules. We hope that these effects coupled with the virus know-how of biologists and medical professionals will lead to the advancement of a remedy that will slow the spread of the epidemic.”
Helene Bringer, Director Large Information & HPC at Atos in France, additional: “These supercomputers mixed have tens of hundreds of processors that work jointly to perform intricate calculations and approach and evaluate huge amounts of info applying AI algorithms. We’re happy that our BullSequana supercomputer, ROMEO, can add to the discovery of a remedy for this pandemic by conserving treasured time for researchers and experts.”
The HT-Covid undertaking is funded by the (CNRS) and the Grand Est (departmental location in the east of France).
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About Atos
Atos is a world chief in digital transformation with a hundred and ten,000 staff in 73 nations and once-a-year revenue of € 12 billion. European quantity one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Significant-Efficiency Computing, the Group gives close-to-close Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Information, Business Apps and Digital Place of work alternatives. The Group is the Around the globe Data Know-how Spouse for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates below the models Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.
The purpose of Atos is to support design the long term of the data house. Its know-how and services aid the advancement of know-how, instruction and analysis in a multicultural approach and add to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the earth, the Group enables its consumers and staff, and members of societies at huge to stay, work and establish sustainably, in a secure and protected data house.
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About URCA
The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne is acquiring a scientific undertaking close to four important centres with sturdy scientific know-how. A multidisciplinary centre with an international dimension in agro-sciences, ecosystem, biotechnologies and bio-economy, getting into account, in a location with a sturdy agricultural and wine-developing economy, the agriculture of the long term a Health centre, supplying scientific niches of excellence and a loaded and diverse assortment of healthcare and paramedical training a digital and engineering sciences centre focusing on higher-effectiveness computing and industry four. industry, supplies and technological transformations and a Human and Social Sciences cluster with, in individual, the advancement of a new concentration on the accomplishing arts federated by the development of a Maison des Sciences Humaines. It gives an interesting multidisciplinary training offer you that fulfills present and long term socio-economic wants and aims to carry pupils to the greatest amount of instruction.
The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne in figures: 27,five hundred pupils, two,five hundred staff members, 5th premier employer in Champagne-Ardenne, thirty analysis laboratories, 14 parts, a lot more than 120 diplomas.
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