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Cloud-based Supercomputer Cluster Is Enlisted for Cancer Research

When computational resources are strained, researchers typically have to cut corners to conduct their experiments. Scientists from Schrödinger, a firm that makes pharmaceutical and biotechnology simulation software, recently decided to take a different approach and decided to build a 50,000-core distributed supercomputer on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to complete a cancer-research project. The work runs on servers in data centers around the world. The three computing hours Schrödinger used in a single night working on the project generated several leads for additional pharmaceutical research that could yield drugs able to bind to a protein implicated in various types of cancer.  (Ars Technica)(Schrödinger)

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