Schrödinger Expands Discovery Efforts for COVID-19 Alliance with Advanced Molecular Simulation Leveraging High-Powered Parallel Computing on Google Cloud
Schrödinger is leading the computational design work in an alliance of major biopharma companies collaborating on the COVID-19 initiative, including
Earlier this year, Schrödinger entered into a strategic agreement with Google Cloud that gave Schrödinger access to computing capacity equivalent to the world’s most powerful supercomputers to accelerate discovery for its commercial partners and its internal pipeline. The new grant from Google Cloud allows Schrödinger to deploy the same high-speed, parallel computing capability on the COVID-19 project, enabling rapid assessments of critical properties of billions of molecules per week through free-energy calculations and other physics-based applications.
The Google Cloud grant to the COVID-19 initiative amounts to 16 million hours of NVIDIA GPU time, which if used consecutively, would equate to 1,826 years of around-the-clock computing. GPU hours can be run in parallel on multiple NVIDIA processors, enabling the exploration of vast swaths of chemical space in a compressed time frame to speed the discovery portion of the R&D work.
“Google Cloud has been a great technology partner to us as we push the limits of computational modeling in our partnered and internal drug discovery programs to identify high-quality molecules more rapidly and at lower cost than traditional methods,” said
“We’re delighted to be teaming up again with Schrödinger and joining the rest of the COVID-19 alliance on this important project,” said
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