UW institute run by Nobel winner lands ‘transformational’ cloud grant from Huang foundation

What happened

The added capacity is expected to speed progress that Nobel laureate David Baker called "totally mind-boggling." (IPD / Benedicte Rossi Image) The UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design (IPD) has announced a giant grant of computing power from the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, supercharging its research into new protein discovery.

In June, the IPD began accessing Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs, through the cloud computing company CoreWeave. The allocation is expected to support the institute for a year.

A large, symmetrical protein created by researchers at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design. The grant from the foundation, which was co-founded by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, totals nearly 7 million GPU hours.

Key facts

• (IPD / Benedicte Rossi Image) The UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design (IPD) has — announced: a giant grant of computing power from the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, supercharging its research into new protein discovery