Articles by Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Gado Images, a digital image processing and artificial intelligence consultancy.
A Supercomputer Analyzed COVID-19 – and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged
A closer look at the bradykinin hypothesis
Health • elocal Digital Edition • September 2020
by Thomas Smith
Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand COVID-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but the process – which involved analyzing 2.5 billion genetic combinations – still took more than a week. When Summit was…