<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:23 AM Jörg Saßmannshausen <<a href="mailto:sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net">sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">One of the things I heard a few times is the use of GPUs for the analysis. Is <br>
that something you are doing as well? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>ORNL definitely is. We were the first to contribute cycles to the COVID-19 HPC Consortium:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/03/30/summit-joins-the-covid-19-high-performance-computing-consortium/">https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/03/30/summit-joins-the-covid-19-high-performance-computing-consortium/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Two finalists for the SC19 Gordon Bell special prize on COVID research used Summit:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/11/18/two-finalists-nominated-for-gordon-bell-special-prize-for-covid-19-work-on-summit/">https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/11/18/two-finalists-nominated-for-gordon-bell-special-prize-for-covid-19-work-on-summit/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>One of which won the prize:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/11/18/multi-institutional-team-earns-gordon-bell-special-prize-finalist-nomination-for-rapid-covid-19-molecular-docking-simulations/">https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/11/18/multi-institutional-team-earns-gordon-bell-special-prize-finalist-nomination-for-rapid-covid-19-molecular-docking-simulations/</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Also, on the topic of GPUs (and being a <br>
bit controversial): are there actually any programs out there which are not <br>
using nVidia GPUs and use the AMD ones for example?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>LLNL is with their Corona system:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.llnl.gov/news/upgrades-llnl-supercomputer-amd-penguin-computing-aid-covid-19-research">https://www.llnl.gov/news/upgrades-llnl-supercomputer-amd-penguin-computing-aid-covid-19-research</a> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>