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1. Various of Doudna supercomputer facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO:
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"Today is a very big day. It’s a very proud day. It’s very proud because we’re announcing for the very first time a supercomputer based on a revolutionary processor and a revolutionary architecture called Vera Rubin. All of NVIDIA’s architectures are based on scientists. And it is incredibly exciting and very proud for us that this computer is going to be named after one of our time’s great scientists, Dr. Doudna."
3. Poster inside Doudna supercomputer facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO:
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"Because of all this combination of amazing technologies, we’re going to take a giant step up in several areas – in high-performance computing for scientific computing, but also artificial intelligence, as well as quantum classical computing."
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, U.S. Energy Secretary:
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"It’s an honor to name the new supercomputer that will be in service by the end of next year, but under construction right now, it will advance scientific discovery from chemistry to physics to biology and all powered unleashing this power of artificial intelligence."
6. Pan inside Doudna supercomputer facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
7. Official next to equipment inside Doudna supercomputer facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
8. Poster inside Doudna supercomputer facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley professor and Nobel Prize winner:
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"So I’m really honored to be part of this. I can’t wait to see what Doudna is going to calculate. Hopefully some things that, you know, are going to make a big difference in the future and frankly help the next generation of scientists to make the next set of breakthroughs."
10. Signed poster inside Doudna supercomputer facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
STORYLINE:
A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the project Thursday alongside executives from computer maker Dell Technologies and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The new computing system at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be called Doudna after Berkeley professor and biochemist Jennifer Doudna, who won a Nobel in 2020 for her work on the gene-editing technology CRISPR. It’s due to switch on next year.
Dell is contracted with the energy department to build the computer, the latest to be housed at Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. Previous computers there have been named after other Nobel winners: Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist, and Gerty Cori, a biochemist.
It’s not clear yet how the computer will rank on the TOP500 listing of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The current top-ranked computer is El Capitan, located about an hour’s drive away at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. That’s followed by other supercomputers at U.S. national labs in Tennessee and Illinois.
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