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      High Performance Computing Enabling R&D At Philip Morris International

      Geuther, J.; Bonjour, F.; O'Neel, B.; Bouttefeux, D.; Gubian, S.; Cano, S.; Suomela, B.

      Conference date
      May 23, 2014
      Conference name
      Forum on HPC in Swiss Industry 2013
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      Philip Morris International (PMI) maintains a high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure which enables research and development of new products that may have the potential to reduce the risks of smoking-related diseases. HPC is helping PMI to understand underlying disease mechanisms, perform biomarker discovery, bioinformatics, text mining, genome sequencing, computational fluid dynamics and molecular dynamics simulations. HPC at PMI has supported over 20 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and more than 80 presentations at international conferences. 

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      Reduced Risk Products ("RRPs”) is the term we use to refer to products that present, are likely to present, or have the potential to present less risk of harm to smokers who switch to these products versus continuing smoking. PMI has a range of RRPs in various stages of development, scientific assessment and commercialization. All of our RRPs are smoke-free products that deliver nicotine with far lower quantities of harmful and potentially harmful constituents than found in cigarette smoke.