Atos supercomputers support global coronavirus research in Brazil

Belonging to Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica and SENAI CIMATEC, the high-performance personal computers Santos Dumont and Ogbon, each developed by Atos, are currently being used on scientific studies for the growth of medicines and vaccines against COVID-19

 

Brazil, 27 April 2020

Atos, a global chief in electronic transformation, announces that two of its supercomputers in Brazil are currently being used in investigate for the growth of vaccines and drugs against the coronavirus. These are Santos Dumont, which belongs to the Countrywide Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), and Ogbon, at SENAI CIMATEC. The supercomputers are deemed the biggest in Brazil and in South America and are in the Best 500 list of the most effective supercomputers in the environment. The initiative is led by the Chemistry Office at Stanford University, in the United States.

The aim is to add to the Folding@household job, coordinated by the University, which scientific studies the evolution of the coronavirus in the human human body, dependent on the conversation of viral proteins, which opens the way for the growth of distinct vaccines and medicine. Owing to their high performance and potential, the two supercomputers are preferably situated to add to this form of investigate. They can be used for parallel processing, complex calculations and intensive and intensive jobs – processes that demand quadrillions of calculations for each next.

Santos Dumont, installed at LNCC, in Rio de Janeiro, aims to have 60% of its potential committed to the Folding@household job, which is two petaflops (equivalent to the computational potential of two million laptops functioning with each other). Ogbon, located at the SENAI CIMATEC Supercomputing Middle, in Salvador, aims to have 50% of its potential devoted to investigate, which corresponds to 1 petaflops (or 1 million laptops).

“Our intent is to connect men and women, engineering and businesses to assistance make improvements to the environment in which we reside. The use of our supercomputers in the fight against Covid-19’s improvement is exactly this. We are really proud to present high-performance engineering to assist and acquire investigate that can conserve millions of lives”, states Luis Casuscelli, Director of Big Details and Cybersecurity at Atos in South America. “Atos machines have by now supported LNCC researchers to detect the supply of the virus’s entry, and to detect that each distinct supply has a distinct characteristic –which will assist researchers and scientists make much more helpful vaccines.”

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About Atos

Atos is a global chief in electronic transformation with above 110,000 personnel in 73 nations and once-a-year profits of above € 11 billion. European range a person in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Efficiency Computing, the Team presents conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Details, Business Programs and Digital Place of work answers. The group is the All over the world Data Technology Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Game titles and operates beneath the models Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), outlined on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The intent of Atos is to assistance style the upcoming of the data engineering house. Its expertise and companies assist the growth of information, education and learning as perfectly as multicultural and pluralistic methods to investigate that add to scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the group allows its clients, personnel and collaborators, and associates of societies at significant to reside, get the job done and acquire sustainably and confidently in the data engineering house.

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