Atos supercomputers support global coronavirus research in Brazil

Belonging to Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica and SENAI CIMATEC, the higher-functionality desktops Santos Dumont and Ogbon, equally developed by Atos, are staying applied on experiments for the advancement of medications and vaccines from COVID-19

 

Brazil, 27 April 2020

Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, announces that two of its supercomputers in Brazil are staying applied in study for the advancement of vaccines and medicine 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 greatest in Brazil and in South The us and are in the Major five hundred listing of the most effective supercomputers in the planet. The initiative is led by the Chemistry Department at Stanford College, in the United States.

The purpose is to add to the Folding@property challenge, coordinated by the College, which experiments the evolution of the coronavirus in the human overall body, based on the conversation of viral proteins, which opens the way for the advancement of particular vaccines and prescription drugs. Owing to their higher functionality and capability, the two supercomputers are preferably located to add to this sort of study. They can be applied for parallel processing, complex calculations and intensive and intensive duties – procedures that need quadrillions of calculations per second.

Santos Dumont, mounted at LNCC, in Rio de Janeiro, aims to have 60% of its capability focused to the Folding@property challenge, which is 2 petaflops (equal to the computational capability of 2 million laptops functioning together). Ogbon, positioned at the SENAI CIMATEC Supercomputing Middle, in Salvador, aims to have 50% of its capability devoted to study, which corresponds to one petaflops (or one million laptops).

“Our goal is to hook up people today, technological know-how and companies to enable make improvements to the planet in which we are living. The use of our supercomputers in the struggle from Covid-19’s progression is accurately this. We are quite proud to deliver higher-functionality technological know-how to assistance and create study that can save hundreds of thousands of lives”, suggests Luis Casuscelli, Director of Large Details and Cybersecurity at Atos in South The us. “Atos machines have currently supported LNCC researchers to identify the supply of the virus’s entry, and to identify that each and every different supply has a different characteristic –which will assistance researchers and scientists produce a lot more efficient vaccines.”

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About Atos

Atos is a world chief in digital transformation with in excess of a hundred and ten,000 workforce in 73 nations and yearly profits of in excess of € eleven billion. European amount one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Significant-Efficiency Computing, the Group offers stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Details, Company Apps and Electronic Workplace answers. The team is the Around the world Data Technological innovation Associate for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the brand names Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The goal of Atos is to enable layout the future of the details technological know-how house. Its knowledge and services assistance the advancement of knowledge, schooling as well as multicultural and pluralistic strategies to study that add to scientific and technological excellence. Across the planet, the team enables its customers, workforce and collaborators, and members of societies at substantial to are living, work and create sustainably and confidently in the details technological know-how house.

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