Vijay Pandey

“Folding at Home is a large-scale distributed computing project where people go to our website folding.snayfer.edu, they download the software, and right now we have about 40 petaflops worth of performance out of maybe about, you know, maybe 400,000 processors.”

“And I think what we're going to see is verticals moving in, in certain directions that can do different things. It's hard to imagine the magic language that solves all of these problems. And so picking things that can sort of attack certain key domains actuall…”

“And MPI, which has been the standard in supercomputing, HPC, is very fault intolerant. You know, the whole job will crash, you know, things like that.”

“What we are doing now with 10,000 GPUs, people will probably do in the future with maybe a small GPU cluster.”

“It's now like a thousand dollars now, 40 dollars soon.”

“And it's never going to be that the cure to cancer looks like a single drug.”

“If you're the one with the big giant corpus, you'll attract the very best data scientists because they'll want to dive into that. They'll come up with the right features and the right ideas, and that will be another sort of effect on top.”

“There is some really tantalizing possibilities here that 80% of all cancers could be cured with existing drugs if we caught them early enough and we knew to give them early enough”

“The other key part of what's now is that human genome project cost three billion dollars, and you know, that's a pretty hefty copay for someone to have to shell out. It's only now that genomics is starting to get actually to the point where you could imagine p…”

“Really, the other key advance here in the cancer space and genomic space is the fact that blood has so much genomic information, even from things like tumors, and that opens the door for these new technologies to come in.”

“I mean, they already can grow beating heart tissue from your own blood that created stem cells. So they can do that right now, and actually you could do that to test drugs on not just like how it behaves in a mouse or behaves in someone else, but how it behave…”

“And I think quantum chemistry could be that application.”

“Or enzymes. It's all the chemistry, you know, so, so this is something where a quantum computer could be able to do calculations that are either much bigger at much higher accuracy where actually would be essentially much bigger at higher, much much higher acc…”

“What will happen is a quantum computer at first will seem like it won't be all that useful. It will be below the number of qubits that you need. Maybe you need a hundred qubits to solve the problem and the existing machine only has 64. And so a classical compu…”

“If you're in this engineering curve, the false positives are actually as important to learning as the true positives.”