AI case study

Texas A&M UniversityDrug discovery

Compute limits capped labs at 1–2 targets/year. A shared 760-GPU cluster let one team screen 10M molecules in a week.

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Key results

Simulation Time
1 week
vs years on previous hardware
Drug Candidates Found
22k+
vs ~120 in all prior efforts combined
GPU Utilization
95–98%

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The story

Context

One of the largest research universities in the United States, anchoring a system of seven institutions with more than $1 billion in annual research expenditures across disciplines from drug discovery to climate modeling and engineering.

Challenge

For years, researchers wrote grants to fund isolated clusters, waited months for national facility allocations, or queued on aging hardware that...

Solution
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Scope & timeline

  • Projected 500–1,500 concurrent users per month

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The company

Texas A&M University logo

Texas A&M University

tamu.edu

Public land-grant research university.

IndustryEducation & Training
LocationCollege Station, TX, USA
Employees10K-50K
Founded1876

The vendor

NVIDIA is a technology company that specializes in semiconductors, graphics processing units, and artificial intelligence for applications in data centers, gaming, and more.

IndustryTechnology
LocationSanta Clara, California, United States
Employees10K-50K
Founded1993

Use case

Texas A&M University's Drug discovery is part of this use case:

Scientific Discovery
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Proven impact?
Average
2.8Typical
2.8Typicalwithin Product Engineering

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