The university of queensland uses dell technologies supercomputer to pioneer new alzheimer's disease breakthrough

Dell technologies announced one of the first computational projects for the university of queensland's dell technologies high-performance computing (hpc) system may enable a non-invasive disease-modifying strategy for alzheimer's disease. the hpc system, built by dell technologies for the university's research computing centre (rcc), is a gpu-accelerated supercomputer. gpus, with significantly more cores than cpus, are well-suited to processing massive amounts of computational tasks in parallel, including intensive tasks such as data visualisation and machine learning (ml). it is also used for modelling possible treatments for some of the most debilitating illnesses, such as alzheimer's disease. the queensland brain institute, the university's neuroscience research institute, is using the wiener system to model the behaviour of ultrasound using an analysis technique called finite element method (fem). the modelling calculates what happens to each element of the brain when an ultrasound is passed through the skull. it is hoped that ultrasound can be used to temporarily allow direct delivery of therapeutic drugs to the brain, something not currently possible due to the presence of a blood-brain barrier and activate cells that can digest the plaques that are a hallmark of alzheimer's disease. the promising results will now be confirmed in a sheep study, an animal with similar skull properties as humans, and may be instrumental in developing treatments that stop or reserve degeneration, rather than just relieving symptoms. the wiener supercomputer also supports the university's lattice light sheet microscope (llsm), using an image restoration technique called deconvolution to provide clear, real-time 4d biology imaging.
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