Atos supercomputers support global coronavirus research in Brazil

Belonging to Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica and SENAI CIMATEC, the superior-general performance computers Santos Dumont and Ogbon, both created by Atos, are being utilised on research for the enhancement of medications and vaccines versus COVID-19

Brazil, 27 April 2020

Atos, a worldwide chief in digital transformation, announces that two of its supercomputers in Brazil are being utilised in exploration for the enhancement of vaccines and medicine versus the coronavirus. These are Santos Dumont, which belongs to the Countrywide Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), and Ogbon, at SENAI CIMATEC. The supercomputers are viewed as the largest in Brazil and in South The united states and are in the Best 500 listing of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. The initiative is led by the Chemistry Department at Stanford University, in the United States.

The aim is to contribute to the Folding@household challenge, coordinated by the University, which research the evolution of the coronavirus in the human overall body, primarily based on the conversation of viral proteins, which opens the way for the enhancement of certain vaccines and prescription drugs. Owing to their superior general performance and capability, the two supercomputers are preferably situated to contribute to this type of exploration. They can be utilised for parallel processing, advanced calculations and intensive and intensive tasks – procedures that desire quadrillions of calculations for every 2nd.

Santos Dumont, installed at LNCC, in Rio de Janeiro, aims to have 60% of its capability devoted to the Folding@household challenge, which is two petaflops (equal to the computational capability of two million laptops doing work collectively). Ogbon, found at the SENAI CIMATEC Supercomputing Centre, in Salvador, aims to have fifty% of its capability devoted to exploration, which corresponds to 1 petaflops (or 1 million laptops).

“Our function is to join persons, know-how and enterprises to assist make improvements to the world in which we dwell. The use of our supercomputers in the battle versus Covid-19’s progression is just this. We are very happy to offer superior-general performance know-how to assist and build exploration that can save tens of millions of lives”, says Luis Casuscelli, Director of Big Info and Cybersecurity at Atos in South The united states. “Atos devices have already supported LNCC scientists to detect the resource of the virus’s entry, and to detect that every single different resource has a different attribute –which will assist scientists and researchers build more helpful vaccines.”

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Atos is a worldwide chief in digital transformation with above 110,000 staff in seventy three nations and annual income of above € eleven billion. European variety a single in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Efficiency Computing, the Team delivers end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Info, Business enterprise Apps and Digital Office alternatives. The team is the Around the globe Data Technologies Associate for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates less than the manufacturers Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), detailed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The function of Atos is to assist layout the future of the info know-how area. Its know-how and services assist the enhancement of knowledge, education and learning as properly as multicultural and pluralistic techniques to exploration that contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the world, the team permits its buyers, staff and collaborators, and members of societies at big to dwell, operate and build sustainably and confidently in the info know-how area.

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