BP Lends Supercomputer for Coronavirus Research
April 16 2020 - 11:15AM
Dow Jones News
By Dieter Holger
BP PLC said Thursday that it has provided access to its
supercomputer to the U.S. government, universities and technology
companies to help researchers tackling the spreading
coronavirus.
The British energy company said its supercomputer in Houston,
Texas, and scientists in San Diego, Calif., would aid the
public-private Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a
coalition that includes International Business Machines Corp.,
Google parent Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
BP said its supercomputer can "process more than 16 million
billion calculations per second and complete a problem in an hour
that would take a laptop nine years."
Covid-19 researchers can submit proposals online to receive
computing help.
"The world is rallying together in response to this pandemic and
our biosciences experts, computer scientists and mathematicians are
proud to play their part by supporting groundbreaking and
potentially life-saving research," said David Eyton, executive vice
president of innovation and engineering at BP.
Write to Dieter Holger at dieter.holger@wsj.com;
@dieterholger
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 16, 2020 11:00 ET (15:00 GMT)
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