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LONDON, March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Four months after raising its seed round from Hoxton Ventures and dRX Capital,

a venture arm of Novartis Pharma AG, Peptone [https://peptone.io/], the

molecular computational physics company focused on protein drug discovery and

engineering tools, has installed an NVIDIA DGX A100 system at Verne Global’s

HPC-optimised data center campus in Keflavik, Iceland. The company also

announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to scale its AI-driven protein

engineering system in order to meet increasing demand from the protein

therapeutics market.

Peptone’s team of physicists, structural biologists, computer engineers and

mathematicians, led by physicist and founder Dr. Kamil Tamiola, have spent the

past three years developing the foundations of Protein Engineering Operating

System (PeOS). In collaboration with NVIDIA, Peptone developed PeOS to handle

massively parallel molecular simulations that are orchestrated and supervised

by reinforcement learning algorithms. The core functionality of the platform is

an automated search for non-obvious protein variants with desirable therapeutic

properties and cost-effective manufacturability.

Peptone elected to colocate its new NVIDIA DGX A100 supercomputer at Verne

Global’s campus as it is powered by 100 percent renewable energy and, as part

of the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Centre Program, is optimised to maintain and

support high density and HPC applications running on NVIDIA infrastructures.

Dr. Kamil Tamiola, CEO and founder of Peptone, said, “The business of protein

therapeutics is a huge industry and as we grow and further develop our

supercomputing capacity, we can help make significant progress in bringing

sought-after protein-based treatments to market faster. Our collaboration with

NVIDIA ensures that we have access to best in-class AI and supercomputing

hardware and support. The decision to locate our computing hardware in Verne’s

Global facility in Keflavik transpires from our commitment to sustainability

and security, as no other Tier-3 facility in this part of the world offers this

level of operational resilience and runs on completely renewable energy

sources. We are proud to be one of the first startups with our own

supercomputing hardware operating on completely renewable energy sources.”

“GPUs are accelerating every phase of drug discovery, and in the early phases

of drug development, they can massively reduce the time to market,” said Craig

Rhodes, EMEA Industry Lead for Artificial Intelligence Healthcare and Life

Science at NVIDIA. “As an NVIDIA Inception

[https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/startups/] member, our

acceleration platform for AI startups, Peptone is showing remarkable success in

the use of their technology to advance this area of discovery.”

“We’re delighted Peptone has selected Verne Global as its data center partner

at this mission-critical moment for the company,” said Dominic Ward, CEO at

Verne Global. “Our facility, powered by 100 percent renewable geothermal and

hydroelectric energy sources, is optimised for the secure and scalable high

intensity computing required by Peptone to successfully meet the growing

demands of the protein therapeutics market and accelerate the time to market of

protein-based drugs.”

About Peptone

Peptone [https://peptone.io/] is a computational molecular physics company that

has developed the protein engineering operating system (PeOS). Peptone’s

protein drug discovery engine enables automated search for non-obvious protein

variants with desirable therapeutic properties and cost-effective

manufacturability. Peptone’s technology is used in a variety of pre-clinical

and late-stage protein therapeutics programs.

About Verne Global

Verne Global [https://verneglobal.com/] delivers true high performance

computing solutions in an optimised environment, built upon renewable

resources. Our expert team provides full life-cycle support to enable maximum

performance and flexibility for customer workloads, whilst offering significant

cost savings. Founded in 2012, our Icelandic data center campus hosts HPC

applications pushing the boundaries of research across a range of industries,

including financial services, earth sciences, life sciences, engineering,

scientific research and AI.

Contacts:

Dr. Kamil Tamiola,

Chief Executive Officer

kamil@peptone.io

+39 338 5920 947

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Source: Peptone