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The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:18 am
by mikeestacio

Re: The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:39 am
by JimboPalmer
Remember folks, never go to a website you have never heard of.

Re: The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:31 am
by alxbelu
JimboPalmer wrote:Remember folks, never go to a website you have never heard of.
Agreed, but I took one for the team; it's actually pretty interesting, and here's Amazons site for their participation in it: https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/consortium/

Description of the consortium (from OPs link):
The COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium
The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium is a unique private-public effort spearheaded by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S. Department of Energy and IBM to bring together federal government, industry, and academic leaders who are volunteering free compute time and resources on their world-class machines.

Consortium partners include:
Industry
  • IBM
    Amazon Web Services
    Google Cloud
    Microsoft
Academia
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    University of California, San Diego
    Department of Energy National Laboratories
    Argonne National Laboratory
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Sandia National Laboratories
    Federal Agencies
    National Science Foundation
    Pittsburg Supercomputing Center
    NASA
Researchers are invited to submit COVID-19 related research proposals to the consortium via this online portal, which will then be reviewed for matching with computing resources from one of the partner institutions. An expert panel comprised of top scientists and computing researchers will work with proposers to assess the public health benefit of the work, with emphasis on projects that can ensure rapid results.

Fighting COVID-19 will require extensive research in areas like bioinformatics, epidemiology, and molecular modeling to understand the threat we’re facing and form strategies to address it. This work demands a massive amount of computational capacity. The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium helps aggregate computing capabilities from the world's most powerful and advanced computers to help COVID-19 researchers execute complex computational research programs to help fight the virus.

Re: The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:30 pm
by mikeestacio
JimboPalmer wrote:Remember folks, never go to a website you have never heard of.
Sorry, that link was actually taken from whitehouse.gov https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st ... -covid-19/

I feel like the F@H Consortium should merge with the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium.

Re: The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:35 pm
by bruce
Summit was shown on the news last night. You don't suppose IBM is worried about the competition from us. :lol:

Re: The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:38 pm
by mikeestacio
bruce wrote:Summit was shown on the news last night. You don't suppose IBM is worried about the competition. :lol:
But IBM is part of the consortium. Unless you mean competition with F@H :wink:

Re: The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:51 pm
by Nathan_P
yeah, they can call us when the get to 450 petaflops :lol: :lol: