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Atos supercomputers support global coronavirus research in Brazil

Belonging to Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica and SENAI CIMATEC, the substantial-efficiency desktops Santos Dumont and Ogbon, each developed by Atos, are remaining made use of on scientific tests for the progress of medicines and vaccines against COVID-19

 

Brazil, 27 April 2020

Atos, a global chief in digital transformation, announces that two of its supercomputers in Brazil are remaining made use of in research for the progress 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 thought of the biggest in Brazil and in South The united states and are in the Best 500 record of the most highly effective supercomputers in the world. The initiative is led by the Chemistry Section at Stanford College, in the United States.

The purpose is to add to the Folding@household task, coordinated by the College, which scientific tests the evolution of the coronavirus in the human human body, dependent on the conversation of viral proteins, which opens the way for the progress of specific vaccines and medicines. Owing to their substantial efficiency and capacity, the two supercomputers are ideally situated to add to this style of research. They can be made use of for parallel processing, sophisticated calculations and considerable and intensive jobs – processes that demand quadrillions of calculations for every second.

Santos Dumont, set up at LNCC, in Rio de Janeiro, aims to have sixty{ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad} of its capacity focused to the Folding@household task, which is two petaflops (equal to the computational capacity of two million laptops performing together). Ogbon, positioned at the SENAI CIMATEC Supercomputing Center, in Salvador, aims to have 50{ae9868201ea352e02dded42c9f03788806ac4deebecf3e725332939dc9b357ad} of its capacity devoted to research, which corresponds to one petaflops (or one million laptops).

“Our purpose is to hook up people today, technological know-how and firms to assist make improvements to the world in which we live. The use of our supercomputers in the fight against Covid-19’s advancement is just this. We are really very pleased to provide substantial-efficiency technological know-how to aid and establish research that can help you save millions of lives”, suggests Luis Casuscelli, Director of Large Info and Cybersecurity at Atos in South The united states. “Atos devices have presently supported LNCC experts to establish the resource of the virus’s entry, and to establish that every single distinct resource has a distinct attribute –which will aid experts and scientists produce a lot more productive vaccines.”

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About Atos

Atos is a global chief in digital transformation with about 110,000 employees in seventy three nations and annual profits of about € eleven billion. European range 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Overall performance Computing, the Group presents conclude-to-conclude Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Large Info, Organization Purposes and Electronic Workplace answers. The group is the Worldwide Information and facts Know-how Lover for the Olympic & Paralympic Online games and operates beneath the manufacturers Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The purpose of Atos is to assist design the foreseeable future of the information technological know-how house. Its experience and products and services aid the progress of expertise, instruction as nicely as multicultural and pluralistic techniques to research that add to scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the group permits its clients, employees and collaborators, and customers of societies at significant to live, work and establish sustainably and confidently in the information technological know-how house.

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