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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 14 th 2009 – 200,000 hospitalizations 10,000 deaths.
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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 TelsaGPU’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.
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-researchers-tap-gpu-supercomputer-for-worlds-first-simulation-of-complete-h1n1-virus-2011-11-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp