University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) uses Atos supercomputer to accelerate research against COVID-19
Paris, June seventeen, 2020
Atos, a global chief in digital transformation, now announces that the College of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)’s supercomputer, named ROMEO, is now getting employed to lookup for new molecules able of neutralizing the virus that results in COVID-19. The supercomputer is based on Atos’ BullSequana architecture.
ROMEO is getting employed as component of the HT-Covid system, initiated by Reims Molecular Chemistry Institute (ICMR), joint exploration device URCA/CNRS, and selected by the French Countrywide Study Company (ANR) to participate in the struggle towards Covid-19. Established up in just a person 7 days, this significant-scale multi-disciplinary virtual screening venture aims to identify, in excess of the upcoming eighteen months, molecules that could inhibit the SARS CoV-two virus.
ROMEO’s computing energy permits scientists functioning on this venture to take a look at countless numbers of molecules per working day. Centered on the 3D framework of the molecule and the goal protein, ROMEO is capable to simulate at high-pace the motion that the molecule could have on the protein, and thus identify which molecules would be capable to bind to the goal protein. These prospective ‘candidates’ will then be synthesized, purified and tested underneath ‘real conditions’.
With ROMEO, GENCI’s supercomputer put in at CINES (Countrywide Computer system Middle for Bigger Training) and that of the IN2P3 Computing Centre of the CNRS (French Countrywide Centre for Scientific Study), scientists have already succeeded in screening practically additional than 1.five billion molecules.
Guillaume Gellé President of URCA, explained: “We’re very pleased to be component of this exploration venture to aid assist the global struggle towards COVID-19. With ROMEO’s vast computing energy scientists have already been capable to take a look at between two hundred,000 and 300,000 molecules. We hope that these results coupled with the virus understanding of biologists and doctors will direct to the enhancement of a therapy that will sluggish the spread of the epidemic.”
Helene Bringer, Director Massive Knowledge & HPC at Atos in France, added: “These supercomputers blended have tens of countless numbers of processors that operate jointly to perform intricate calculations and course of action and examine significant quantities of data employing AI algorithms. We’re very pleased that our BullSequana supercomputer, ROMEO, can lead to the discovery of a cure for this pandemic by preserving precious time for scientists and scientists.”
The HT-Covid venture is funded by the (CNRS) and the Grand Est (departmental area in the east of France).
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About URCA
The College of Reims Champagne-Ardenne is producing a scientific venture close to four significant centres with potent scientific experience. A multidisciplinary centre with an worldwide dimension in agro-sciences, environment, biotechnologies and bio-economy, having into account, in a area with a potent agricultural and wine-creating economy, the agriculture of the upcoming a Overall health centre, featuring scientific niches of excellence and a rich and varied assortment of healthcare and paramedical training a digital and engineering sciences centre concentrating on high-performance computing and market four. market, supplies and technological transformations and a Human and Social Sciences cluster with, in particular, the enhancement of a new target on the performing arts federated by the development of a Maison des Sciences Humaines. It provides an beautiful multidisciplinary training give that fulfills recent and upcoming socio-economic demands and aims to carry students to the optimum stage of education.
The College of Reims Champagne-Ardenne in figures: 27,five hundred students, two,five hundred workers, fifth major employer in Champagne-Ardenne, 30 exploration laboratories, fourteen factors, additional than one hundred twenty diplomas.
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