HPC YEARBOOK 2021/22 AMD


donates computing hardware to research against Covid-19


Travis Campbell, senior manager, external research office at AMD Research, discusses the AMD Covid-19 Fund and the impact it is having on scientists


institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on Covid-19 and other diseases. The goal of the AMD Covid-19


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HPC Fund is to help researchers not only deepen their understanding of Covid-19, but also improve the ability to respond to future potential threats to global health. The first wave of grants was


awarded on April 15, 2021, with 23 grantees across seven countries


n April 15, 2020, AMD announced the AMD Covid-19 HPC Fund to provide research


benefitting from the fund, which has grown to $20M in total market value. With 12 petaflops of total


supercomputing capacity awarded, the combined compute capacity donated through the AMD Covid-19 HPC Fund would rank among the fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the most recent Top500 list.


Research projects of grantees


range from evolutionary modelling of the Covid-19 virus, to understanding the virus spike protein activation that occurs prior to the first interaction


between the coronavirus and human cell, and large-scale fluid dynamics simulations of Covid-19 droplets as they travel through the air. HPC processing power has helped institutions solve previously unsolvable problems, accelerate timelines, and understand data on a deeper level than ever before. Workloads related to genomics, vaccine development, transmission science, and modelling, are ultimately driving us toward an improved approach, not just for Covid-19, but for tackling future global health threats.


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