{"id":15516,"date":"2020-03-23T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15516"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:11:28","slug":"white-house-announces-new-partnership-to-unleash-u-s-supercomputing-resources-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/03\/23\/white-house-announces-new-partnership-to-unleash-u-s-supercomputing-resources-to-fight-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Announces New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43192\" title=\"The White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/whitehouse-logo-200x136.jpg\" alt=\"The White House\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\"><strong>Washington, D.C<\/strong>. &#8211; The White House announced the launch of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/covid19-hpc-consortium.org\/\" >COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium<\/a> to provide coronavirus (COVID-19) researchers worldwide with access to the world\u2019s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-478008\" title=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/West-Wing-480x240.jpg\" alt=\"The White House - West Wing. (Official White House Photo)\" width=\"480\" height=\"240\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is coming together to fight coronavirus (COVID-19), and that means unleashing the full capacity of our world-class supercomputers to rapidly advance scientific research for treatments and a vaccine. We thank the private sector and academic leaders who are joining the federal government as part of the Trump Administration\u2019s whole-of-America response,\u201d said Michael Kratsios, U.S. Chief Technology Officer.<\/p>\n<p>This unique public-private consortium, spearheaded by The White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, and IBM, includes government, industry, and academic leaders who have volunteered free compute time and resources on their machines:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IBM<\/li>\n<li>Amazon Web Services<\/li>\n<li>Google Cloud<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>Hewlett Packard Enterprise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Academia<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<li>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Argonne National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>Sandia National Laboratories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Federal Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Science Foundation<\/li>\n<li>NASA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researchers are invited to submit coronavirus (COVID-19) related research proposals to the consortium via the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xsede.org\/covid19-hpc-consortium\" >online portal<\/a> which will then be reviewed and matched with computing resources from one of the partner institutions. An expert panel of top scientists and computing researchers will work with proposers to quickly assess the public health benefit of the work and coordinate the allocation of the group\u2019s powerful computing assets.<\/p>\n<p>The sophisticated computing systems available through this Consortium can process massive numbers of calculations related to bioinformatics, epidemiology, and molecular modeling, helping scientists develop answers to complex scientific questions about COVID-19 in hours or days versus weeks or months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[470center]<\/p>\n<h3>Federal Agency Partners<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cUnder the Donald Trump Administration, the United States has regained its position as the dominant global force in Supercomputing technology. The Department of Energy is home to the world\u2019s fastest and most powerful supercomputers, and we are excited to partner with leaders across the scientific community who will use our world class innovation and technology to combat COVID-19,\u201d said U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Energy\u2019s National Labs have made profound advancements towards combating COVID-19,\u201d said U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar. \u201cBy providing researchers access to world leading technology here in our own backyard, we take an additional leap towards ending this pandemic. We look forward to collaborating with scientists and researchers to bring an end to COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Nuclear Security Administration is eagerly lending its world-class supercomputing resources to combat COVID-19 in collaboration with OSTP and other agencies,\u201d said Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, DOE Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and NNSA Administrator. \u201cTen NNSA supercomputers will be available, empowering researchers to understand the COVID-19 virus, develop treatments and vaccines, and ultimately bring an end to this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Science Foundation is pleased to join the COVID-19 HPC Consortium to enhance access to the Nation\u2019s leading HPC resources, including the NSF-funded Frontera supercomputer, the world\u2019s most powerful HPC system deployed on an US academic campus,\u201d said France Cordova, Director of the National Science Foundation. \u201cFrontera and other NSF-funded advanced computing resources will enable the Nation\u2019s science and engineering community to pursue data science, computational modeling, and artificial intelligence approaches to help us accelerate our understanding of COVID-19 and strategies for responding to the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to lend NASA\u2019s supercomputing expertise to assist in the global fight against this pandemic. For more than six decades the agency has used its expertise to take on challenges that have benefited people worldwide in unexpected ways,\u201d said Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator.<\/p>\n<h3>Industry Partners<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAccelerating the process of discovery to unlock treatments and a cure for COVID-19 is of vital importance to us all. By bringing together the world\u2019s most advanced supercomputers and matching them with the best ideas and expertise, this consortium can drive real progress in this global fight. IBM is proud to have helped kick-start this important effort,\u201d said Dario Gil, Director of IBM Research.<\/p>\n<p>[320letft]\u201cWe know that high performance computing can reduce the time it takes to process massive data sets and perform complex simulations from days to hours,\u201d said Mike Daniels, Vice President, Global Public Sector at Google Cloud. \u201cWe look forward to participating in this initiative alongside leaders in technology, academia, and the public sector to make more resources available to COVID-19 researchers and to apply Google Cloud computing capabilities toward the development of potential treatments and vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure researchers working to combat COVID-19 have access to the tools they need. Through our AI for Health program we\u2019ve seen first-hand the impact of empowering talented researchers with powerful technology. We hope that by expanding access to the Azure cloud and High Performance Computing capabilities, and by creating more opportunities to collaborate with our own data scientists, we can help accelerate this important work,\u201d said John Kahan, Microsoft Global Head, AI for Health Program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to support this critical work and stand ready with the compute power of AWS to help accelerate research and development efforts,\u201d said Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector at AWS. \u201cWorking together, government, business, and academic leaders can utilize the power of the cloud to advance the pace of scientific discovery and innovation, and help combat the COVID-19 virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Academic Partners<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIn order to combat the devastating effects of this pandemic, we must be able to fully grasp the complexities and interconnectedness of biological systems and epidemiological data, as researchers work to develop therapeutic interventions and address gaps in our knowledge,\u201d said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson. \u201cThis effort requires expertise, collaboration, and the ability to process incredible amounts of data, and Rensselaer is offering all three at this critical time. In particular, the ability to model at very large scales requires the unique capabilities of AiMOS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComputing and AI have a major role to play in bringing Covid-19 under control,\u201d said Christopher Hill, head of MIT\u2019s research computing infrastructure. \u201cWe want to do our part by making MIT\u2019s two most powerful machines, Satori and TX-GAIA, available to researchers who are racing to understand the virus, model the outbreak, and accelerate drug discovery and design. This will be a team effort, and we hope our actions will inspire others to throw their computing power and brain power at the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211; The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium to provide coronavirus (COVID-19) researchers worldwide with access to the world\u2019s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[12675,12712,2901,568,2810,12795,10992,1346,4752,4989,12797,12796,12794,904,2038,7228,3338],"class_list":["post-15516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-google","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-ibm","tag-los-alamos-national-laboratory","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-national-science-foundation","tag-oak-ridge-national-laboratory","tag-supercomputer","tag-u-s-department-of-energy","tag-united-states","tag-virus","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15517,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions\/15517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}