Distributed Computing in a Pandemic

• Published in: Advances in distributed computing and artificial intelligence journal Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 19 - 43
• Main Author: Alnasir, Jamie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Salamanca Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 06.06.2022
• Subjects: cloud; Cloud computing; cluster; Clusters; Computational grids; Computer networks; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; distributed; Distributed processing; Economic impact; grid; hpc; Impact analysis; Medical research; Molecular dynamics; Natural products; Pandemics; Parallel processing; sars-cov-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Supercomputers; supercomputing

The current COVID-19 global pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 betacoronavirus has resulted in over a million deaths and is having a grave socio-economic impact, hence there is an urgency to find solutions to key research challenges. Much of this COVID-19 research depends on distributed computing. In...