White House Launches Supercomputing Consortium to Fight Virus

White House Launches Supercomputing Consortium to Fight Virus
The logo for IBM appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 18, 2019. Richard Drew, File/AP Photo
Katabella Roberts
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The White House on March 23 announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, allowing researchers access to U.S.-based supercomputers that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the CCP virus.

According to a statement, the new consortium is headed by the White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, and IBM and also includes others like Microsoft and Google, as well as federal agencies such as NASA and the National Science Foundation, who have volunteered free computing time and resources for CCP virus research.

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