Quantum computing is quickly becoming more science than fiction, and Boehringer Ingelheim hopes to be out in front in bringing it to biopharma R&D. Through a new partnership with Google, the drugmaker hopes to harness its promised speeds and capabilities to simulate the body’s biological mechanics at the molecular level and help discover and design new treatments. The three-year pharmaceutical project is the first of its type for Google’s Quantum AI division, and will be co-led by… Source link
Read More »France’s OVH partners with Google for European cloud computing push
FILE PHOTO: Visitors stand at the French web-hosting and server provider OVH Group new headquarters in Paris, France, October 17, 2018. Picture taken October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau PARIS (Reuters) – French technology firm OVH said on Tuesday it is partnering with Google to build up its capacities in cloud computing, leaning on the U.S. giant’s technology to speed up a push towards developing a European contender in the area. Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google dominate the… Source link
Read More »Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud. Google designed the A2-family of VMs to boost training and inference computing performance for its customers. The A2 features the NVIDIA A-100 Tensor Core graphics processing unit based up the newly NVIDIA… Source link
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