UW protein institute led by Nobel laureate lands nearly 7M GPU hours from Nvidia CEO's foundation

The UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design (IPD), led by 2024 Nobel laureate David Baker, has received a grant of computing power from the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation totaling nearly 7 million GPU hours. The allocation, accessed via CoreWeave's cloud, is expected to support the institute for a year and accelerate its AI-driven protein design research.

• Grant from the Huang foundation totals nearly 7 million GPU hours for one year
• IPD has accessed Nvidia GPUs via CoreWeave's cloud since June
• Institute develops open-source tools RoseTTAFold and RFdiffusion
• IPD previously relied only on its own limited compute cluster