Speeding up genomics research in the fight against COVID-19

With COVID-19 statistics still increasing, understanding it and developing an effective vaccine are top priorities among biomedical and healthcare scientists worldwide. However, accelerating vaccine research and empowering COVID-19 discoveries requires high-performance computing (HPC) environments that support high-throughput volumes while ensuring data privacy.

To enable these efforts, Lenovo partnered with Intel to create the Genomics Optimization and Scalability Tool (GOAST) – a specially designed hardware and software bundle that speeds up genomics analytics at GPU-level speeds but at CPU-level costs. Before GOAST, data centres took 60-150 hours to process one human genome. On GOAST, the process runs in as little as 48 minutes and up to 30 whole genomes per node per day.

This technical whitepaper details how Lenovo developed its GOAST architecture, the types of insights that COVID-19 researchers need, how HPC can enable COVID-19 discoveries, and how GOAST is able to achieve its repeatable performance.

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