[Beowulf] Project Heron at the Sanger Institute [EXT]

[Scott Atchley]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:23 AM Jörg Saßmannshausen <
sassy-work at sassy.formativ.net> wrote:

> One of the things I heard a few times is the use of GPUs for the analysis.
> Is
> that something you are doing as well?


ORNL definitely is. We were the first to contribute cycles to the COVID-19
HPC Consortium:

https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/03/30/summit-joins-the-covid-19-high-performance-computing-consortium/

Two finalists for the SC19 Gordon Bell special prize on COVID research used
Summit:

https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2020/11/18/two-finalists-nominated-for-gordon-bell-special-prize-for-covid-19-work-on-summit/

One of which won the prize:

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/


> Also, on the topic of GPUs (and being a
> bit controversial): are there actually any programs out there which are
> not
> using nVidia GPUs and use the AMD ones for example?


LLNL is with their Corona system:

https://www.llnl.gov/news/upgrades-llnl-supercomputer-amd-penguin-computing-aid-covid-19-research
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