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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.The 51精品视频 has added 9,672 gigaflops of computational power 鈥 and the potential to make an additional 9.7 trillion computations per second 鈥 to its Innovation Hub for Health Science Medical Research, which will expand scientists鈥 capacity to create and clinicians鈥 ability to implement personalized diagnoses and treatment plans. A recent gift of computer hardware and support services from Dell USA will help fight a wide range of medical conditions, including cancer, Alzheimer鈥檚 and common diseases.
鈥51精品视频 ranks in the top 2% of American universities in R&D spending, most notably fifth in grants from the Department of Health and Human Services,鈥 said Anantha Shekhar, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of the School of Medicine. 鈥淭he computational power provided by the Dell system will support hundreds of researchers aiming to leverage the exponentially growing amounts of scientific and patient data to advance understanding of human health and disease.鈥
Use of the collaboratively designed and installed Dell high-performance computer system will start combating breast cancer and soon expand to treating other cancers, mapping every cell in the human body and slowing aging at the cellular level. Specifically, these include the and .
鈥淭hese large science collaboratives leverage advanced computer architectures, such as hybrid cloud software suites known as microservices, and secure supercomputing compliant with U.S. and European Union privacy standards,鈥 said Jonathan C. Silverstein, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics who serves as principal investigator for the breast cancer and cellular senescence projects.
Researchers create terabyte after terabyte of data through doctor鈥檚 office visits and during hospital stays. Until now, much of that data has remained in silos and is too massive for humans to fully analyze and understand. By feeding that data into the Dell system, researchers and clinicians will find patterns and new understandings will emerge.
鈥淏y using high performance computing, we can create a health care system that learns,鈥 said Adrian Lee, director of the Institute for Precision Medicine. 鈥淲ith this, we can accelerate advances in care, which could directly lead to shorter, more effective treatments with better outcomes leading to improved quality of life.鈥
The knowledge and insights gained from each patient can be used to recommend personalized treatments, which will create more data for the ever-growing system.
鈥淭his gift initially will serve as a blueprint for using computational resources to attack all diseases that strike humankind,鈥 said Mark Henderson, 51精品视频 vice chancellor and chief information officer. 鈥淔inding new uses for this system is only limited by our imagination, and our work will serve as a blueprint for other researchers.鈥
The gift from Dell supports the company鈥檚 goal to deliver enduring impact for 1 billion people by 2030.
鈥淥ne billion lives is a lofty goal, but with the incredible power of innovation and digital transformation, and with partners such as the 51精品视频, I know we can do it,鈥 said Kanon Hile, social innovation portfolio director for Dell Technologies. 鈥淲e must act with a sense of urgency to apply technology in the most meaningful ways, including providing data-driven health advancement at national and international levels.鈥
The new system supports the Innovation Hub for Health Science Medical Research, which is a collaboration of the 51精品视频, UPMC, 51精品视频sburgh Supercomputing Center and Carnegie Mellon University.
鈥淲e are making 51精品视频sburgh the epicenter for computationally enabled health and precision medicine,鈥 said Joseph Yun, 51精品视频鈥檚 artificial intelligence and innovation architect and research professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Swanson School of Engineering. 鈥淭his type of infrastructure will truly accelerate our research. We could not have this level of high-performance computing without gifts such as the one from Dell.鈥
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