“The Doudna system represents DOE’s commitment to advancing American leadership in science, AI, and high-performance computing,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.
### Located at Berkeley Lab, NERSC is the mission high performance computing facility for the DOE Office of Science, supporting more than 11,000 scientists and 800 projects annually.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies.
Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 16 Nobel Prizes.
Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the next flagship supercomputer. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright announced a new deal with Dell Technologies to develop NERSC-10, a U.S. S. Facility used by the Department of Energy (DOE) at Berkeley Lab. Due in 2026, the new system will bear the name of Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist from Berkeley Lab who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her research on the gene-editing technique CRISPR.
Powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform, the new supercomputer will be a Dell Technologies system designed to support large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, such as those in high-energy physics, molecular dynamics, and AI training and inference. It will also offer a stable environment for the workflows that enable cutting-edge science.
The Doudna system is a testament to DOE’s dedication to strengthening U.S. leadership in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and science, according to U. S. . Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy. It will be a catalyst for swift innovation that will revolutionize our attempts to create cheap, plentiful energy sources and push quantum computing advancements. Our time’s Manhattan Project is artificial intelligence (AI), and Doudna will help make sure American scientists have the resources they need to prevail in the global competition for AI supremacy. “.”.
The performance of NERSC’s current flagship supercomputer, Perlmutter, will be more than ten times that of the Doudna supercomputer. Modern technology like the NVIDIA Vera-Rubin CPU-GPU platform and Dell’s most sophisticated ORv3 direct liquid-cooled server technology will be used in the construction of Doudna.
Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, stated, “At Dell Technologies, we are empowering researchers worldwide by seamlessly integrating simulation, data, and AI to address the world’s most complex challenges.”. “Our partnership with the DOE on Doudna demonstrates a common goal to push the boundaries of high-performance computing and spur innovation that advances humanity. “”.
According to Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, “Doudna is a time machine for science — compressing years of discovery into days.”. The Vera Rubin platform from NVIDIA, which was developed in collaboration with DOE, will enable scientists to think more broadly and delve deeper in their search for the universe’s fundamental truths. “”.
“A wide range of scientific workflows are intended to be accelerated by the Doudna supercomputer. “NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh stated, ‘We are working with NVIDIA and Dell to ensure our 11,000 users are ready to utilize the exciting new workflow capabilities of this system. Through the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Doudna will be linked to DOE’s observational and experimental facilities, enabling scientists to analyze data in almost real time and stream it into the system from anywhere in the nation. “.”.
Doudna is expected to drive the next generation of fusion innovators by providing the computational power to transform decades of promise into useful, plentiful energy sources. For instance, NERSC was established to support fusion research, and Doudna is poised to play a crucial role in advancing high-priority breakthroughs in a variety of science and technology areas.
Powerful GPUs in the system will also allow DOE-funded researchers to easily incorporate large-scale AI into their simulation and data analysis workflows, speeding up research in fields like basic physics, biomolecular modeling, and advanced materials design.
Modern quantum simulation tools, such as NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q platform, will also be supported by Doudna, enabling the co-design of upcoming integrated quantum-HPC systems, scalable quantum algorithm development, and large-scale modeling and verification of quantum computers.
The new supercomputer will be powered by a high-speed NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking platform, a heterogeneous workflow environment that can be reconfigured to support complex workflows, and Dell Integrated Rack Scalable Systems and PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA accelerators for workloads optimized for AI and computation. High-performance parallel file systems and quality of service storage systems will be provided by data management and storage solutions, providing a dependable and robust platform that facilitates automated AI-driven workflows, real-time interactive computing, and multi-facility integrated science.
Serving more than 11,000 scientists and 800 projects a year, NERSC is the DOE Office of Science’s mission high performance computing facility, housed at Berkeley Lab.
Innovative research centered on discovery science and solutions for plentiful and dependable energy sources is the mission of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The lab’s areas of expertise include earth and environmental science, biology, chemistry, physics, materials, mathematics, and computing. The lab’s top-notch scientific facilities are used by researchers from all over the world to conduct their own groundbreaking studies. Berkeley Lab and its scientists have won 16 Nobel Prizes since the lab’s founding in 1931 on the tenet that teams are the most effective way to tackle the most difficult problems. Managed by the University of California for the United States, Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory. A. Department of Science, Department of Energy.
