AMD & NVIDIA Join the HPC COVID-19 Consortium

[Uskompuf]

AMD and NVIDIA are the latest computing giants to join the HPC COVID-19 Consortium, they join the likes of Google, Amazon, Microsoft along with the US Federal Government and Academic Institutions in support of COVID-19 research. This announcement brings the combined power of the cluster to 402 petaflops which trails behind the community driven Folding@Home project which holds the record at 1,500 petaflops but is still more powerful than any one supercomputer.

Researchers can apply to the HPC COVID-19 Consortium for compute resources in the fight against COVID-19.



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[Vayra86]

Long overdue, no?

 

[notb]

I understand the massive marketing exercise, but how exactly are they going to contribute?
"The Consortium welcomes additional members who are capable of contributing significant compute resources to the pool for this important work. "

All other "Industry" members are top cloud providers - apart from HPE who probably joins as a HPC expert (as they've built large part of the clusters provided by academia/gov members).

I really doubt Nvidia will offer their cloud gaming servers - it's probably overwhelmed by quarantined gamers at this point.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

Long overdue, no?

Too long. All these companies are nothing without the market.