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In this article, Sara Castellanos talks about supercomputers and how they are helping speed up the research to find a drug to treat COVID-19. The U.S. Government has granted full supercomputer access to the research teams that are working to find a cure for this virus. The researchers are working in a partnership with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, International Business Machines Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud, Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services and others. In the research already found, it has been found that the the virus causes illness by binding to the body's ACE2 receptors. The plan at the moment is to develop a Covid-19 drug using a decoy, in hopes that the virus will bind to a fake version of protein, which could prevent illness. The use of supercomputers is speeding up the research for the drug tremendously and could possibly have a drug ready in a matter of months.
I chose this article because as of right now, the virus is affecting almost everyone with the virus being global. We all want this virus to go away and be able to go outside again without any fear and also be able to return to jobs and getting back to work. There is a specific target market using the supercomputers and that is the research teams working on finding this drug for the virus. If they can find a cure in a couple months, hopefully we all are able to return to our normal lives soon.
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