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LLNL Gets Involved In Fight Against Coronavirus
The Lawrence Livermore National Lab is joining a public-private partnership that aims to use supercomputers to learn more about coronavirus.
LIVERMORE, CA — The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is joining forces with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, NASA and others in an effort to learn more about the new coronavirus.
Participants will pool supercomputers to learn more about the virus by processing calculations about epidemiology, health care system response, bioinformatics and molecular modeling, according to a statement. The process could take hours or days as opposed to weeks or months.
The public-private COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium is organized by the White House Office of SCience and Technology Policy and U.S. Department of Energy, which said it has the fastest and most powerful supercomputers.
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"America is coming together to fight COVID-19, and that means unleashing the full capacity of our world-class supercomputers to rapidly advance scientific research for treatments and a vaccine," said U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios in the statement.
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