WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER FINDS 77 POTENTIAL COVID-19 TREATMENTS

[PeteS in CA]

https://futurism.com/neoscope/fastest-supercomputer-finds-potential-covid-treatments

WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER FINDS 77 POTENTIAL COVID-19 TREATMENTS
BY VICTOR TANGERMANN / MARCH 20 2020

Scientists recently tasked the world’s fastest supercomputer with running thousands of simulations to find drug compounds that could fight the coronavirus.

Now, CNN reports, the IBM supercomputer — called “Summit” and housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee — has identified 77 treatments that may be able to stop COVID-19 dead in its tracks.
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“Our results don’t mean that we have found a cure or treatment for the coronavirus,” said Jeremy Smith, director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Molecular Biophysics, in a statement.

“We are very hopeful, though, that our computational findings will both inform future studies and provide a framework that experimentalists will use to further investigate these compounds,” he added.
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The team cut down the list from 77 to the top seven most promising candidates to treat the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

“Given the results from both sets of docking calculations, our work suggests that at least the seven compounds identified here would be reasonable initial compounds for experimental investigations in limiting SARS-CoV-2’s virus-host interactions,” reads the paper.

If I understand this correctly, the 77 and the "Top 7" would be drugs of known safety (dosage, side effects, counter-indications).

[Smokin Joe]

Well, using a computer out of Oak Ridge does have a certain 'Manhattan Project' flair to it...

[truth_seeker]

Well, using a computer out of Oak Ridge does have a certain 'Manhattan Project' flair to it...

The physical location of a big mainframe has little to do with the data input.

McAuto was a subsidiary of McDonnell Douglas leasing big mainframe processing from remote teletype locations in the 60s/70s

[Smokin Joe]

The physical location of a big mainframe has little to do with the data input.

McAuto was a subsidiary of McDonnell Douglas leasing big mainframe processing from remote teletype locations in the 60s/70s

The reference was that Oak Ridge was also where the uranium and plutonium for the first atomic bombs was processed. ("Manhattan Project", the all out, no holds barred effort to be first with a nuclear weapon.)