IBM Joins White House 
to Provide Supercomputing 
Power for COVID-19 Research IBM, the White House Office of Science and 
Technology Policy and the Department of Energy have created the COVID-19 High 
Performance Computing Consortium. IBM announced the 
new initiative to aid 
research in fighting COVID-19. Director of IBM Research 
Dario Gil, to CNN Computing power will be harnessed 
by 16 supercomputing IBM systems, 
national laboratories and universities, 
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others. Remote access will be provided to researchers 
whose projects are approved by the consortium. Director of IBM Research 
Dario Gil, to CNN Michael Kratsios, Chief Tech Officer for U.S.