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The world's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus from spreading, a crucial step toward a vaccine
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Summit, IBM's supercomputer equipped with the "brain of AI," ran thousands of simulations to analyze which drug compounds might effectively stop the virus from infecting host cells.
The supercomputer identified 77 of them. It's a promising step toward creating the most effective vaccine.
Summit was commissioned by the US Department of Energy in 2014 for the purpose it's serving now -- solving the world's problems.
It's got the power of 200 petaflops, which means it has the computing speed of 200 quadrillion calculations per second, aka: It's 1 million times more powerful than the fastest laptop.
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