European researchers conduct 'biggest ever' COVID supercomputer test


MILAN (Reuters) - A European research consortium said on Monday it had carried out the most complex supercomputing experiment ever conducted on the new coronavirus, during a 60-hour simulation aimed at modelling the effect of potential new COVID drugs.

The operation, overseen by the European Commission-backed Excalate4Cov platform, harnessed supercomputers of Italy's Cineca computing consortium and energy giant ENI, testing 70 billion molecules and evaluating 1 trillion interactions.

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