Overview
- U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the project on May 29 alongside Dell and Nvidia executives at Berkeley Lab’s computing center.
- The supercomputer will join previous Nobel-named machines at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.
- Nvidia product executive Dion Harris said one of the system’s primary roles will be supporting large-scale genomics studies.
- Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley biochemist honored with the 2020 Nobel Prize for CRISPR research, lends her name to the new machine.
- Dell Technologies holds the contract to build Doudna, whose ranking on the TOP500 list remains undetermined ahead of its activation next year.