GPU Supercomputer Simulation of Complete H1N1 virus
Brandon Abbott
Motivation / Objective
Swine Flu / H1N1 Pandemic Summary Combination of bird,
pig, and human flu virus
First in the US April of 2009
Nov 14th 2009 – 200,000
hospitalizations 10,000 deaths
Chinese H1N1 Flu Study - Goals Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS-IPE) “A computational microscope”
Goals: To control epidemics To create anti-viral drugs To see the whole process of the reactions
Reactions under a real microscope often occur too quickly.
GPU Super Computing Method Mole 8.5 Supercomputer
2,200 NIVIDIA Telsa GPU’s 288 Server nodes
Able to simulate the whole H1N1 virus at an atomic level Each day they simulated… 770 picoseconds of simulation (1 trillionth of a
second) Stepping at 1 femtosecond (1 quadrillionth of a
second) 300 million atoms simulated.
Why I chose this topic
References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
2009_flu_pandemic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picosecond http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinese-re
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