Paris, November 26, 2020
Atos announces that the Virtual University of Senegal (UVS) is screening a mathematical algorithm which models the spread of COVID-19, to appraise the effects of containment steps this kind of as social distancing and putting on masks, working with Atos’ BullSequana X800 supercomputer. This supercomputer, dependent on twond Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum processors is obtainable through Atos’ new HPC, AI, and Quantum Life Sciences Centre of Excellence (LSCoE). Intel Corporation, between other people, has furnished funding for this challenge.
“We have now created an significant step ahead in modelling the spread of the virus for the Senegalese territory. With the compute abilities and skills furnished by Atos’ BullSequana HPC system, we hope to accelerate the simulation of a combination of different containment steps and detect those people that are a lot more effortless.” stated Abdou Sene, Professor of Utilized Mathematics, Head of the Pole of Innovation and Skills for Advancement (PIED) at the Virtual University of Senegal “In unique, we have applied the product at a regional scale for Senegal and thus in order to carry out simulations we aggregated the different units utilised by just about every region into one. Furthermore, the product has been age-structured, which multiplies the size of the system by the amount of age teams regarded. Simulating this kind of a product with exact facts might give proof of the cause why the pandemic does not have the exact same evolution in the different areas of the entire world.”
The Virtual University of Senegal is one of the first people of this system. In line with the Senegalese overall health authorities’ tactic, renowned researchers at the Pole of Innovation and Skills for Advancement (PIED) of UVS have developed a theoretical mathematical product capable to simulate different situations in the spread of COVID-19 and required superior laptop or computer sources to operate many simulations.
“Advanced computing platforms like Atos’ BullSequana have played a significant role in studying SARS-CoV-two,” stated Trish Damkroger, Vice President and General Manager of High General performance Computing at Intel. “Providing Atos and the UVS with the most up-to-date Intel-dependent compute technologies is allowing researchers to harness great quantities of facts to simulate the spread of COVID-19 and appraise the ideal strategies to limit its transmission.”
By accessing Atos’ primary-edge technologies, this kind of as Quantum, High General performance Computing and AI, supported by Atos’ companies and skills, together with this Atos-Intel HPC system, researchers at UVS are now capable to check their product by working with different situations to measure the effects of containment steps. The product contains a quarantined inhabitants variable and appears to be at the survival of SARS-CoV-two on surfaces.
“This new HPC system, which has been created obtainable through Atos’ HPC, AI, and Quantum Life Sciences Centre of Excellence, signifies a pretty superior chance for those people like the UVS doing the job on assignments that involve higher in-memory abilities.” stated Alpha Barry, CEO of Atos in Africa “We’re proud to be capable to assistance researchers in Senegal to enable advance exploration to find out a lot more about how the COVID-19 virus behaves and assistance the struggle towards this world wide pandemic.”
This system is available to all universities and laboratories throughout the world doing the job in SARS-Cov-two associated assignments and it illustrates the first milestone in the new Atos-Intel partnership in Life Sciences in which Intel gives funding for a system that is fully managed and operated by Atos specialists.
Intel is committed to accelerating obtain to engineering that can battle the present-day pandemic and allow scientific discovery that much better prepares our entire world for upcoming crises. This solution was funded in component by Intel’s Pandemic Reaction Technological know-how Initiative. For a lot more information and facts about healthcare remedies from Intel, take a look at intel.com/healthcare. For a lot more information and facts about Intel’s COVID-19 response, take a look at intel.com/COVID-19.
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Complex requirements
BullSequana X800 supercomputer
eight sockets twond Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Platinum 8280) with a total of 224 cores)
6 TB of shared memory
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