AMD sets up Covid-19 high-performance computing fund

AMD, a high-performance computing and graphics technologies company, has announced a Covid-19 HPC (high-performance computing) fund to provide research institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on Covid-19 and other diseases.

“The fund will include an initial donation of $15 million of high-performance systems powered by AMD EPYC CPUs (central processing units) and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs (graphics processing units) to key research institutions,” Lisa Su President and Chief Executive Officer, has said.

In a letter to its stakeholders globally, she said, research institutes can contact AMD at COVID-19HPC@amd.com to submit proposals for getting access to the ready-to-install HPC nodes. “We are working with our HPC system provider partners to provide ready-to-install HPC nodes,” she said.