Associated Press (hundreds of syndicated stories of this story, including the Washington Post and ABC News)
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A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday. U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the project Thursday alongside executives from computer maker Dell Technologies and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
Reuters
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“The scientific supercomputer is one of humanity’s most vital instruments. It is the instrument for advancing knowledge discovery,” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said at the event. “It is the foundation of scientific discovery for our country. It is also a foundation for economic and technology leadership. And with that, national security.”
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/technology/energy-department-supercomputer-ai.html
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory expects the new machine, to be named for Jennifer Doudna, a Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry, to offer more than a tenfold speed boost over the lab’s most powerful current system. If fully outfitted, the machine could be the Energy Department’s biggest resource for tasks like training A.I. models, said Jonathan Carter, associate laboratory director for computing sciences at the Berkeley center.
Fox Business (National)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/nvidia-dell-partner-trump-admin-make-next-gen-supercomputer
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The supercomputer is expected to help advance research into fusion energy, materials science, astronomy and accelerate drug discoveries at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a DOE unit focused on high-performance computing located at the Berkeley Lab…”It will be a powerhouse for rapid innovation that will bring us abundant and affordable energy supplies, breakthroughs in quantum computing, and more,” Wright said. “AI is the Manhattan Project of our time, and Doudna will help ensure America’s scientists have the tools they need to win the global race for AI dominance.”
Business Insider
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Doudna is designed to integrate simulation, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) into a single platform. Scientists across the U.S. will be able to seamlessly stream data into the system and analyze real-time results. Doudna is expected to drive breakthroughs in fusion energy, materials science, accelerate drug discoveries, process real-time data from space, and support quantum workflows. The supercomputer is expected to be 10x faster in scientific output than its predecessor, Perlmutter, while using only 2x-3x more power.
E&E News
https://www.eenews.net/articles/doe-unveils-ai-supercomputer-aimed-at-transforming-energy-sector/
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The supercomputer, NERSC-10, is expected to provide more than 10 times the performance of the most advanced machine at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is housed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California…“Doudna is a time machine for science — compressing years of discovery into days,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said in a news release. It is named after Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist at the lab who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
KTVU (Fox Bay Area)
https://www.ktvu.com/news/ai-supercomputer-coming-bay-area
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NVIDIA CEO Jenson Huang and Dell Senior Vice President Paul Perez said the Doudna computer will be ten times more powerful than the current supercomputer and utilize cutting-edge Dell servers with the latest NVIDIA AI technology. “It’s going to unify three ways of doing computing,” Huang said. “Principle simulations, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. So we can simulate electrons using quantum computing, take the ground truth from that simulation, and train an AI model at a very large scale. These will be possible for the very first time. Here.
NBC Bay Area
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/supercomputer-jennifer-doudna-ai-scientific-research/3880365/
Excerpt (TV Package):
A supercomputer, named after Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Nobel prize winner, and science pioneer. “I just want to make sure that the next generation of scientists have the same opportunity that somebody like me had. I really believe in that. It’s probably the most important thing I do is thinking about the future,” Dr. Doudna said. The new machine will help power the future, fittingly with chips from Silicon Valley’s NVIDIA.
NextGov
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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.
