NVIDIA Is Contributing Its AI Smarts To Help Fight COVID-19 (engadget.com) 12
NVIDIA is using its background in AI and optimizing supercomputer throughput to the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium group, which plans to support researchers by giving them time with 30 supercomputers offering a combined 400 petaflops of performance. Engadget reports: NVIDIA will add to this by providing expertise in AI, biology and large-scale computing optimizations. The company likened the Consortium's efforts to the Moon race. Ideally, this will speed up work for scientists who need modelling and other demanding tasks that would otherwise take a long time. NVIDIA has a number of existing contributions to coronavirus research, including the 27,000 GPUs inside the Summit supercomputer and those inside many of the computers from the crowdsourced Folding@Home project. This is still a significant step forward, though, and might prove lifesaving if it leads to a vaccine or more effective containment.
400 Petaflops? (Score:2)
The virus hasn't got a chance!
Okay (Score:5, Funny)
Now I know I've woken up in bizarro world [youtube.com].
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I'm sure the medical community 'glided' into success with that one.
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Nah, they thought it was just Voodoo.
Thanks NVIDIA for your contribution (Score:3)
NVIDIA has a number of existing contributions to coronavirus research, including ... those inside many of the computers from the crowdsourced Folding@Home project.
And here I thought I was the one who paid for my video card and decided to live with the increased thermal wear and power costs to running F@H on it. Damn.
Re: Thanks NVIDIA for your contribution (Score:2)
Good to hear (Score:2)
I guess the proteins they're calculating will have much better rendered shading.
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Re: Good to hear (Score:4, Funny)
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They open sourced their drivers and let anyone (Score:1)
Use their cards on anything?
Oh wait, it's just shitty blog spam.