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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 31 2020, @09:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the by-the-numbers dept.

NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research:

NASA has joined a consortium of institutions that is pairing up supercomputing resources with proposals for using high-end computing power for COVID-19 studies. The effort was organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and includes industry partners IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon, Microsoft and others, as well as the Department of Energy's National Labs, the National Science Foundation, and many universities. The consortium is supporting 64 projects and is open to new proposals. To date, four projects have been matched to NASA.

"This is not NASA's normal work, but we have the supercomputers and the expertise to help researchers working on COVID-19 get the most out the supercomputing power," said Tsengdar Lee, program manager for NASA's High End Computing Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Supercomputers are suited for processing large amounts of data. For NASA's usual projects this means simulating the movements of air masses and water around the planet to study Earth's climate, hunting for exoplanets, studying the behavior of black holes, or designing aeronautic or aerospace vehicles. Each piece of these very large puzzles is guided by certain physical and chemical laws in their interactions and relationships with other components. Zooming in to the atomic level to study the coronavirus is no different. Each molecule and cell moves and reacts based on physics and chemistry, which makes simulation a powerful tool for understanding the coronavirus.

"This is work we are pleased to support," said Piyush Mehrotra, division chief of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames. "Our team will do whatever it takes to support the research projects so that we can understand and fight this disease as quickly as possible."


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @11:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @11:46AM (#1001319)

    You buy civil servants computers to do their job, and they end up using them to play Solitaire or cure COVID.

  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday May 31 2020, @12:10PM

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Sunday May 31 2020, @12:10PM (#1001325)

    "Our team will do whatever it takes to support the research projects so that we can understand and fight this disease as quickly as possible."

    "And to stop TV news reporters from having to sound like Kenny from South Park"

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @07:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @07:47PM (#1001476)

    Obviously this is yet another Democrst plot to make Trump look bad while embezzling OUR tac dollars with the overblown virus "panDEMic"as cover. What is happening to our once great country??

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:19PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:19PM (#1001522) Journal

      You're saying in jest what several of our frothier, foamier members say in earnest. Poe is rolling his his grave.

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:50PM (#1001528)

    In the COVID-19 economy the only businesses allowed to be open are grocery stores and pharmacies. Every other business is closed by Boomer decree as non-essential to Boomers. The grocery store employs armed guards to enforce social distancing to protect the Boomers. I tried to buy food at the grocery store but the grocery store gives preferential treatment to Boomers and there was no food left for me. The only place I am able to buy food is the pharmacy because Boomers use pharmacies strictly as dispensaries and leave the grocery section untouched. The pharmacy has a limited selection of food but I have managed to subsist on ramen and oatmeal which the Boomers do not buy.

    Try living in the world controlled by the whims of selfish pensioned Boomers who deliberately wrecked the entire world economy because their actions do not affect them personally. Try living in a world where Boomers will have you shot for stepping outside without a mask. Try living in a world where Boomers are implicitly exempt from their own mandatory mask orders because masks are just so uncomfortable on a Boomer chin. Try living in a world where you eat ramen and oatmeal while Boomers eat chicken and steak.

    Try living in a world of Boomers.

    • (Score: 2) by Kitsune008 on Monday June 01 2020, @03:45AM

      by Kitsune008 (9054) on Monday June 01 2020, @03:45AM (#1001594)

      Try adding a few ketchup packets to your ramen for a spaghetti-like experience! Bonus if you find some roadkill to add in.

      Cicadas are supposed to be plentiful this year, so add some pizazz and extra protein to your bland oatmeal!

      For hundreds more food tips, just send $99.99USD for my collection: "Fucked up Recipes for Fucked up Losers and Other Snowflakes"

      Limp back underneath your bridge, you laughably lame troll, I have book orders to see to.

      signed, a Boomer

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