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The new supercomputer, named after a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will support artificial intelligence technology and scientific discovery from perches on the hill above the University of California, Berkeley said Thursday.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright is scheduled to announce the project Thursday along with executives from computer makers Dell Technologies and Chipmaker Nvidia.
The new computing system at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is called Doudna after Berkeley professor and biochemist Jennifer Doudna. It is scheduled to be on next year.
“One of the key use cases is genomics research,” said Dion Harris, product executive in Nvidia’s AI and high performance computing division in an interview. “It was basically a nod to her contribution to the field.”
Dell has contracted with the Energy Department to build computers and is housed at the latest Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research and Science Computing Center. The previous computer was named after other Nobel winners. Astrophysicist Saul Permatter and biochemist Gerti Koli.
It is not yet clear how computers will rank on the top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The current top ranked computer is Elpitan, located about an hour’s drive from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Other supercomputers are then followed at the US National Laboratory in Tennessee and Illinois.
