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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