https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/03/22/ibm-partners-with-white-house-to-direct-supercomputing-power-for-coronavirus-research/ > IBM on Sunday announced an initiative to increase access to high-performance computing for groups researching and fighting the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. > IBM partnered with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Energy to create the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The effort, which IBM started just last week, is expected to harness powerful high-performance computing, or “supercomputing,” resources that will massively increase the speed and capacity of coronavirus-related research.