University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) uses Atos supercomputer to accelerate research against COVID-19

Paris, June seventeen, 2020

Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, today announces that the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)’s supercomputer, named ROMEO, is now being applied to search for new molecules capable of neutralizing the virus that triggers COVID-19. The supercomputer is dependent on Atos’ BullSequana architecture.

ROMEO is being applied as portion of the HT-Covid software, initiated by Reims Molecular Chemistry Institute (ICMR), joint investigation device URCA/CNRS, and picked by the French National Investigation Company (ANR) to participate in the combat towards Covid-19. Set up in just 1 week, this significant-scale multi-disciplinary digital screening project aims to detect, in excess of the future 18 months, molecules that could inhibit the SARS CoV-2 virus.

ROMEO’s computing electricity permits scientists doing work on this project to check thousands of molecules for every day. Dependent on the 3D framework of the molecule and the concentrate on protein, ROMEO is equipped to simulate at high-speed the action that the molecule could have on the protein, and thus detect which molecules would be equipped to bind to the concentrate on protein. These potential ‘candidates’ will then be synthesized, purified and tested under ‘real conditions’.

With ROMEO, GENCI’s supercomputer put in at CINES (National Computer Heart for Better Education) and that of the IN2P3 Computing Centre of the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Investigation), scientists have already succeeded in screening almost much more than 1.5 billion molecules.

Guillaume Gellé President of URCA, reported: “We’re very pleased to be portion of this investigation project to assistance assistance the world combat towards COVID-19.  With ROMEO’s wide computing electricity scientists have already been equipped to check between two hundred,000 and three hundred,000 molecules. We hope that these benefits coupled with the virus information of biologists and doctors will guide to the advancement of a therapy that will sluggish the unfold of the epidemic.”

 Helene Bringer, Director Huge Data & HPC at Atos in France, included: “These supercomputers put together have tens of thousands of processors that do the job jointly to accomplish advanced calculations and method and examine significant amounts of information applying AI algorithms. We’re very pleased that our BullSequana supercomputer, ROMEO, can contribute to the discovery of a cure for this pandemic by preserving important time for scientists and researchers.”

 The HT-Covid project is funded by the (CNRS) and the Grand Est (departmental area in the east of France).

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About URCA

The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne is producing a scientific project all around four important centres with sturdy scientific abilities. A multidisciplinary centre with an international dimension in agro-sciences, surroundings, biotechnologies and bio-economic system, getting into account, in a area with a sturdy agricultural and wine-developing economic system, the agriculture of the long term a Well being centre, offering scientific niches of excellence and a abundant and various assortment of medical and paramedical teaching a digital and engineering sciences centre concentrating on high-effectiveness computing and business four. business, materials and technological transformations and a Human and Social Sciences cluster with, in unique, the advancement of a new aim on the doing arts federated by the creation of a Maison des Sciences Humaines. It delivers an beautiful multidisciplinary teaching offer you that meets latest and long term socio-financial needs and aims to provide students to the best stage of education and learning.

The University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne in figures: 27,five hundred students, 2,five hundred workers, fifth major employer in Champagne-Ardenne, thirty investigation laboratories, fourteen elements, much more than a hundred and twenty diplomas.

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