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The combined computing resources of the CERN Baltic Group reach the TOP500 global rating in support of the Folding@Home COVID-19 research initiative

2020. gada 23. septembris

By dedicating computing resources to the fight against COVID-19, the CERN Baltic Group has reached the top five hundred of the global Folding@Home initiative in 5 months in a competition of approximately 254233 teams. This is a significant success, which confirms the capacity of Latvia and the Baltics in the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC).


Team CERN Baltic Group resources have been combined by the HPC Centre of Riga Technical University, the Institute of Numerical Modelling of the University of Latvia, the National Library of Latvia, Vilnius University, Kaunas Technical University, Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre and DATI Group SIA. At the time of writing, Team CERN Baltic Group is ranked 492nd.

 
At the beginning of this year, Riga Technical University and the University of Latvia, in cooperation with DATI Group LLC, implemented a pilot project for a high-performance computing (HPC) resource cloud for the computing tasks of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CERN Baltic Group followed CERN's initiative to dedicate its HPC computing resources to the fight against COVID-19 by mathematically modelling protein-amino acid interaction simulations within the Folding@Home distributed computing initiative. The findings should lead to faster development of a vaccine against COVID-19.

 

You can find out more about this initiative in an interview presented by scientists from RTU and LU Latvian Radio 1!


CERN Baltic Group HPC Team Folding@Home statistics.


About the CERN Baltic Group - here.

 

About DATI Group LLC - here.

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