AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund donated 5 more petaFLOPS of computing power
The CPUs high-performance second generation AMD EPYC and Radeon Instinct GPUs will be employed to support research programs at the Texas University of Austin, the University of Toronto, Stanford, UCLA, the University of Trento other 13 institutions in the United States, Europe and India.
With the addition of these new 5 petaFLOPS of computational capabilities, the AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund initiative to date has made available a total of 12 petaFLOPS of computing power at the service of scientific research, a value that would fall into the top 500 ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
According to Professor Enrico Blanzeri of the Department of Engineering and Information Science of the University of Trento "The computational resources that AMD is providing will be included in our ongoing gene @ home project, which aims to discover the causal relationships between gene expression. In particular, we intend to accelerate research into genes that interact with SARS-CoV-2, in collaboration with medical researchers and students of the Biological Data Mining Laboratory. AMD's initiative has come at just the right time, and we expect it to push us to make further analysis methods possible. "
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