Energy, NVIDIA and Dell unveil new planned supercomputer

The latest public-private sector collaboration brings the new Doudna supercomputer to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California to pursue advancements across emerging tech and scientific fields.

BERKELEY, Calif. — The public and private sectors have once again come together to support a new “game-changing” supercomputing installation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which will be called “Doudna.”

Doudna is due in 2026 and will be powered by liquid-cooled hardware from Dell and Vera-Rubin central-and general-processing unit software from NVIDIA. These technologies will work in conjunction to advance the scientific work conducted at the Lawrence Berkeley lab, including artificial intelligence training and testing; quantum computing research;molecular dynamics and high energy physics work; and others. 

Major players from industry and government, including NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Dell Senior Vice President Paul Perez and Energy Secretary Chris Wright met in Berkeley to unveil Doudna and ...