Didi Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China's largest ride hailing platform Didi Chuxing, said on Saturday that it will offer GPU cloud computing resources and technical support for combating the new coronavirus to domestic scientific research institutions, medical and rescue platforms, for free.
This includes, but is not limited to, GPU cloud servers, load balancing SLB, elastic public network EIP, and related technical support services, the company said.
During the outbreak, any domestic public scientific research institutions, hospitals, schools, and online medical platforms, free education resource providers, and epidemic prevention resources assistance for the new coronavirus research and drug development can contact Didi Cloud.
Didi Cloud said that it will fully cooperate in the first time, provide resources and technical support, and contribute to the battle of epidemic prevention and control.
The move follows Alibaba Cloud, which announced on January 29 that during the pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, its AI computing power will be available to public research institutions around the world for free to accelerate the development of new pneumonia drugs and vaccines.
At present, the China CDC has successfully isolated the virus of the new coronavirus, and vaccine development and drug screening are still ongoing intensely.
During the development of new drugs and vaccines, a large amount of data analysis, large-scale literature screening and scientific supercomputing work are required.
Alibaba Cloud said that it can provide powerful AI computing power for this purpose, support viral gene sequencing, new drug development, protein screening and other work, and help scientific research institutions shorten the development cycle.
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