CEO Essays 2020_02_25

The YouTube links below are computer simulations of the molecular-level interactions of cells and viruses.

From the creation of his invisible things, his eternal power and divinity are clearly seen in all that he has made, and therefore they cannot excuse. (Romans 1:19)

All life activities in which people get sick, grow old, die, eat and drink, excrete, think, love and hate are fundamentally the result of the incredibly sophisticated and complex interactions among molecular or atomic level particles.

Therefore, to find and analyze the root cause of the sickness, and put it back in the right place, thorough comprehension about the process, from 'why are we sick' to 'how are we treated with a certain medicine', is required. This process should be simulated by a computer at the molecular or atomic level and step by step.

The figure above is a computer simulation of 'protein folding' in tiny protein fragments in a cell.

As of 2020, the CPU is still in the GHz[1] era, but IBM is researching and developing Deep Biology Computing, which funded billions of dollars a year by pharmaceutical companies like Roche. According to the task of computer tracking and simulating how medicine works, the amount of
calculation to simulate the movement of a tiny protein fragment[2] made of 32,000 atoms in 0.1 msec[3], requires the 23rd power of 10 FLOPS (Floating Point Operations Per Second).

Currently, the world's best supercomputer, IBM's Summit in United States, using 2.4 million CPUs to generate 200 PFLOPS (Peta FLOPS, the 15th powers of 10 FLOPS) and 13 million watts of power.[i]

Thus, in a simulation of the protein fragment consisted of 32,000 atoms requires half a million of the most sophisticated supercomputers, which means 1.2 trillion CPUs and 5 trillion watts-77% of global power generation, 6.5 trillion watts-.

That's why we need an "Exascale" CPU.

The Exascale CPU is capable of the 18th power of 10 FLOPS, or 1000 PFLOPS, also aims to use 100 watts of power in a single CPU. This is five times superior to the performance of the best supercomputers in 2020. This is the goal that ISAC CPU Research intends to develop by 2022.