U.S. Department of Energy announces to develop a new flagship Supercomputer powered by Dell and NVIDIA

A few days back, during a visit to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), U.S. Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright officially announced a new contract with Dell Technologies to develop NERSC-10, the next flagship supercomputer at the National Energy Research Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facility at Berkeley Lab.

The new system, due in 2026, is revealed to be named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist. The new supercomputer, a Dell Technologies system powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform, will be engineered to support large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) workloads like those in molecular dynamics, high-energy physics, and AI training and inference.

It is said that Doudna will be one of the most advanced supercomputers ever deployed by the Department, advancing US leadership in the global race for AI. The department has also mentioned on the X platform that AI is the next Manhattan Project.

AI is the next Manhattan Project, and THE UNITED STATES WILL WIN. 🇺🇸

— U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) May 29, 2025

According to U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, “The Doudna system represents DOE’s commitment to advancing American leadership in science, AI, and high-performance computing.”

Built together with Dell and powered by NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform, Doudna will let scientists delve deeper and think bigger to seek the fundamental truths of the universe. Doudna will be connected to DOE experimental and observational facilities through the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), allowing scientists to stream data seamlessly into the system from all parts of the country and to analyze it in near-real time.