It can accelerate the production of vaccines and spur hyper- individualized medicine Shortly after China welcomed the new year, the whole world was pressurized into quickly discovering a vaccine and a cure for covid-19.
While scientists and researchers were busy in their labs, IBM’s Summit, the world’s fastest supercomputer, was busy running numerous simulations and computations to help scientists find promising molecules to fight the pandemic.
The latest update says the Summit has been able to identify 77 candidate molecules that researchers can use in trials, and this was achieved in just two days, while, traditionally, it has taken months to make such progress.
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