High-performance computing based real-time COVID-19 response

We are requesting access to PSC and other HPC resources to continue our critical work pertaining to COVID-19 planning and response. Our group has long standing expertise in the use of HPC resources for pandemic planning and response. We have been actively supporting federal, state, and local authorities in their efforts to combat the pandemic, providing roughly 6-7 weekly briefs and analytical products. Our current work output is supporting policy development and planning efforts for DTRA (the DoD’s COVID-19 Task Force, US Northern Command, and the National Guard Bureau), Commonwealth of Virginia (the Virginia Dept of Health and Virginia’s Unified Command structure for COVID-19, and the Virginia Dept of Emergency Management) and local health authorities. We are requesting continued access to PSC and other supercomputing centers to continue the work we are doing. The work is critical right now given an upsurge in pandemic activity and a number of events that are likely to exacerbate the situation, including college and school reopening, reopening of businesses, start of the influenza season, changes in the weather, and potential fatigue in the population in maintaining social distance and curtailing daily activities.