ASF Roundtable – Fighting COVID with Advanced Technologies: Reprovisioning Resources During a Disruptive Event

In the second installment of the Advanced Scale Forum COVID-19 Series presented by HPCwire, we explore some newly established best practices and lessons learned about mounting a global collaboration of historical proportions to fight SARS-CoV-2 using HPC to slow or stop the spread of this deadly pandemic. Research centers around the world responded to the immediate need for research resources to aid in the battle of the disruptive COVID event.

As was described in the previous event, HPC and data science were at the core of these efforts, and an entirely new set of best practices had to be established to make rapid progress. In this roundtable, our guests representing multiple perspectives will describe how their datacenters managed this shift burst. They’ll also discuss a national initiative to develop standards and protocols for reprovisioning to address a disruptive event. (human capital, CPU, security, distributed environments, leveraging (x)AAS, etc).