How supercomputers are helping battle COVID-19

ZDNet Innovation Weekly

May 29, 2020

How the world's largest and fastest supercomputers are being used to understand the coronavirus

The UK will be the first country outside the US to join the COVID-19 High Performance Computing consortium and will allow scientists to rapidly accelerate coronavirus research using high-performance computing platforms.

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How IBM is using data sets to help combat COVID-19

Sriram Raghavan, vice president for IBM Research AI, sits down with Tonya Hall to discuss ways that IBM is working to gather data sets to aid in the fight against COVID-19.

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