A major technology company has signed on with the white house to help fight the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump announced that IBM is looking into supercomputers to help find a cure to the COVID-19 virus. The company is part of a consortium that includes many top universities and labs, Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
IBM calls it the COVID-19 high performance computing consortium and says it will bring an unprecedented amount of computing power, including more than 265 petaflops, 775,000 CPU cores, and 34,000 GPUs. Petaflops enable a computer to move at faster speeds, CPUs are the processors that function as the brains of computers, and GPUs, render data-heavy graphics, images and video.
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Honeywell is also joining the fight to help prevent the spread of the virus. The company is expanding its personal protective equipment manufacturing operations in Rhode Island to produce millions of protective masks.
IBM and Honeywell aren't the only ones joining forces. Several other major scientific organizations are part of the consortium, including NASA, MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories, and the National Science Foundation.