“Last week, President Trump announced the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a unique public-private effort spearheaded by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and IBM – along with a growing group of government, industry, and academic leaders – to unleash the power of America’s supercomputing resources to combat COVID-19.”
“Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar is leading the Consortium’s efforts at DOE, and he described them in more detail via a (virtual) interview below:
Could you talk a bit more about the Consortium: What makes it unique? How will it speed our efforts to stop the virus?
To accelerate the fight against COVID-19, the White House, in partnership with IBM and the Department of Energy, announced on March 22nd the creation of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. This public-private partnership includes the biggest players in advanced computing from government, industry, and academia. At launch, the consortium includes five DOE laboratories, industry leaders like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and preeminent U.S. universities like MIT, RPI, and UC San Diego. And within a week, we’ve already received more than a dozen requests from other organizations to join the consortium…”
“How does a researcher submit a proposal for consideration?
Researchers are encouraged to submit COVID-19 related research proposals to the Consortium via…”
“Beyond the Consortium, how else are DOE’s National Labs contributing to our efforts against COVID-19?
The DOE laboratory complex has many core capabilities that can be applied to addressing the threats posed by COVID-19. In addition to the computational modeling and simulation described above, our labs are using their suite of X-ray light sources and neutron sources to rapidly make molecular structure determinations of key proteins from SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. These structural data are an essential input for many of the computational studies already underway. Our labs will continue working with collaborators from across the country to leverage these world-leading facilities towards better understanding this virus…” Read the full post here.
Source: Q&A with Under Secretary Paul Dabbar on the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium – March 30, 2020. Energy.gov.
