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Supercomputers seeking solutions for Covid-19

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Published April 14, 2020 3:00pm

Supercomputing power for Covid-19 solutionsThe world’s most powerful supercomputers are being used for urgent investigations into the Sars-Cov-2 virus. Professor Peter Coveney from the UCL Centre for Computational Science is part of this consortium of hundreds of scientists across the globe, and tells Gareth how this phenomenal amount of computer power is already trying to identify potential treatments and vaccine candidates for Covid-19.

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