Originally published at: ISC20 Featured Demo: Accelerating COVID-19 Research with NVIDIA GPUs | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Scientists and researchers are racing against the clock to find a cure for COVID-19. The search requires the screening of billions of drug candidates and identifying the right chemical structure that will most favorably bind—and interfere—with the virus. However, calculating the binding potential is computationally intensive, taking years to screen a billion compounds on a…