Atos supercomputers support global coronavirus research in Brazil

Belonging to Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica and SENAI CIMATEC, the large-efficiency computer systems Santos Dumont and Ogbon, equally produced by Atos, are becoming utilised on scientific studies for the progress of medications and vaccines versus COVID-19

 

Brazil, 27 April 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in electronic transformation, announces that two of its supercomputers in Brazil are becoming utilised in research for the progress of vaccines and medicine versus the coronavirus. These are Santos Dumont, which belongs to the Nationwide Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), and Ogbon, at SENAI CIMATEC. The supercomputers are thought of the major in Brazil and in South The usa and are in the Prime 500 record of the most strong supercomputers in the planet. The initiative is led by the Chemistry Division at Stanford University, in the United States.

The aim is to lead to the Folding@property job, coordinated by the University, which scientific studies the evolution of the coronavirus in the human system, based mostly on the conversation of viral proteins, which opens the way for the progress of unique vaccines and prescription drugs. Owing to their large efficiency and capacity, the two supercomputers are ideally positioned to lead to this sort of research. They can be utilised for parallel processing, complex calculations and intensive and intense duties – procedures that demand quadrillions of calculations for each 2nd.

Santos Dumont, set up at LNCC, in Rio de Janeiro, aims to have 60% of its capacity committed to the Folding@property job, which is two petaflops (equal to the computational capacity of two million laptops performing with each other). Ogbon, located at the SENAI CIMATEC Supercomputing Middle, in Salvador, aims to have 50% of its capacity devoted to research, which corresponds to one petaflops (or one million laptops).

“Our reason is to join people today, engineering and organizations to help make improvements to the planet in which we live. The use of our supercomputers in the battle versus Covid-19’s development is specifically this. We are pretty proud to provide large-efficiency engineering to aid and acquire research that can help you save millions of lives”, claims Luis Casuscelli, Director of Large Information and Cybersecurity at Atos in South The usa. “Atos machines have currently supported LNCC experts to detect the source of the virus’s entry, and to detect that every single distinctive source has a distinctive attribute –which will aid experts and scientists produce additional efficient vaccines.”

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About Atos

Atos is a world wide chief in electronic transformation with in excess of 110,000 workforce in seventy three countries and once-a-year revenue of in excess of € 11 billion. European number 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Higher-Performance Computing, the Team offers conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Information, Business enterprise Apps and Electronic Office remedies. The group is the Around the world Details Know-how Companion for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates less than the brand names Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

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