The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is set to unveil a new supercomputer named 'Doudna,' in honor of Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, who was awarded the prize for her groundbreaking work in gene-editing. Announced by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, this state-of-the-art computing system is being developed in collaboration with Dell Technologies and Nvidia, and will focus on advancing artificial intelligence technologies and scientific research, specifically in the field of genomics. Expected to go online next year, it follows a tradition of naming supercomputers at the lab after Nobel Prize winners.
The new computing system at the Berkeley Lab will be called Doudna after Berkeley professor and biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who won a Nobel in 2020 for her work on gene-editing technology CRISPR.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the project on Thursday alongside executives from computer maker Dell Technologies and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
One of the key use cases will be genomics research, according to Dion Harris, a product executive in Nvidia's AI and high-performance computing division.
Previous computers at Berkeley Lab have been named after other Nobel winners: Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist, and Gerty Cori, a biochemist.
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