IBM Supercomputer Is Leading the Fight Against Coronavirus

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is taking the fight to COVID-19.

The company has deployed Summit, considered to be "the world's most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer," to gain ground on the outbreak that spread around the globe at unprecedented speed. Summit, which is equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy and is used to address some of the world's most pressing problems.  

The supercomputer's cutting-edge technology was tasked to run the thousands of simulations necessary in order to identify drugs that might be effective in combating the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

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