Peptone announces a collaboration with NVIDIA and Verne Global to scale its AI-driven protein engineering system
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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
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