US supercomputer named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna to power AI and scientific research

A caller supercomputer named aft a victor of the Nobel Prize successful chemistry volition assistance powerfulness artificial quality exertion and technological discoveries from a perch successful the hills supra the University of California, Berkeley, national officials said Thursday

BERKELEY, Calif. -- A caller supercomputer named aft a victor of the Nobel Prize successful chemistry volition assistance powerfulness artificial quality exertion and technological discoveries from a perch successful the hills supra the University of California, Berkeley, national officials said Thursday.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is scheduled to denote the task Thursday alongside executives from machine shaper Dell Technologies and chipmaker Nvidia.

The caller computing strategy astatine the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory volition beryllium called Doudna aft Berkeley prof and biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who won a Nobel successful 2020 for her enactment connected the gene-editing exertion CRISPR. It's owed to power connected adjacent year.

“One of the cardinal usage cases volition beryllium genomics research,” said Dion Harris, a merchandise enforcement successful Nvidia's AI and high-performance computing division, successful an interview. “It was fundamentally conscionable a motion to her contributions to the field.”

Dell is contracted with the vigor section to physique the computer, the latest to beryllium housed astatine Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. Previous computers determination person been named aft different Nobel winners: Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist, and Gerty Cori, a biochemist.

It's not wide yet however the machine volition fertile connected the TOP500 listing of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The existent top-ranked machine is El Capitan, located astir an hour's thrust distant astatine the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. That's followed by different supercomputers astatine U.S. nationalist labs successful Tennessee and Illinois.

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