IBM 与白宫将部署超级计算机 对抗新型冠状病毒爆发

DoNews 3 月 23 日消息（记者 向密） 据外媒报道，特朗普政府宣布，IBM 正在与白宫合作，提供大量的超级计算能力，以帮助研究人员制止新型冠状病毒的蔓延。

根据 IBM 研究主管 Dario Gil 的一份声明，这家科技公司已与白宫科学技术政策办公室以及美国能源部合作，成立了 COVID-19 高性能计算联盟。超级计算能力将可帮助研究人员开发预测模型，以分析疾病的发展进程，并为新的潜在疗法或可能的疫苗建模。

Dario Gil 称：「这些高性能的计算系统使研究人员能够在流行病学，生物信息学和分子建模中进行大量计算。」 「如果手动进行，这些实验将需要数年才能完成，如果在速度较慢的传统计算平台上进行，则将花费数月。」

该联盟将评估来自世界各地的研究计划，并将超级计算能力提供给最能产生立竿见影效果的项目，使用它的研究人员都可得到技术援助。

IBM Summit 超级计算机系统已经在帮助美国能源部识别可能使冠状病毒失效的药物化合物。

这个联盟的其他合作伙伴包括 NASA，麻省理工学院，伦斯勒理工学院，劳伦斯·利弗莫尔国家实验室，阿贡国家实验室，橡树岭国家实验室，桑迪亚和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室以及国家科学基金会。（完）
Novel coronavirus DoNews March 23rd (press to MI), according to foreign media reports, the Trump administration announced that IBM is cooperating with the White House to provide a lot of supercomputing power to help researchers curb the spread of the new coronavirus.
According to a statement by Dario Gil, IBM’s research director, the technology company has teamed up with the White House Office of science and technology policy and the U.S. Department of energy to form the covid-19 High Performance Computing Alliance. Supercomputing will help researchers develop predictive models to analyze disease progression and model new potential therapies or possible vaccines.
“These high-performance computing systems enable researchers to do a lot of computing in epidemiology, bioinformatics and molecular modeling,” Dario Gil said. “If it’s done manually, these experiments will take years to complete, and if it’s done on a slower traditional computing platform, it will take months. “
The alliance will evaluate research programs from around the world and provide supercomputing capabilities to projects that produce the most immediate results, with technical assistance available to researchers using it.
The IBM summit supercomputer system is already helping the U.S. Department of energy identify drug compounds that could disable the coronavirus.
Other partners in the alliance include NASA, MIT, Rensselaer Institute of technology, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, and the National Science Foundation. (end)