Healthcare and Exascale (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
SessionHPC Impact Showcase (Wed PM)
Session ChairsMohamad El-ZeinDavid Halstead
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Event Type
HPC Impact Showcase
TimeWednesday, November 16th1pm - 1:30pm
Location155-E
DescriptionNational U.S. efforts such as the Precision Medicine Initiative and the Cancer Moonshot aim to transform our understanding of human disease. High performance computing is already an essential element of biomedical research and clinical translational science: molecular dynamic simulations fuel the drug discovery process and computational analysis delivers results for genomic sequencing. Real-time, multi-scale cell, organ and body simulations will require not only massive computational capabilities but also new data science techniques. As computing performance slows with the end of Moore’s Law, the demand for computing and data power for these initiatives will increase to exascale. Tremendous challenges await to enable these interdisciplinary efforts to better diagnose and treat human disease.
