The U.S. Department of Energy partners with Nvidia and Dell to announce the next generation supercomputer.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States announced on the 29th that the Department of Energy had signed a contract with Dell to create a new flagship supercomputer powered by NVIDIA chips. According to a press release from the laboratory, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the laboratory that day, announcing the contract with Dell to develop the next-generation flagship supercomputer for the "National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center" under the Department of Energy. According to the Associated Press, Wright announced the collaboration that day with Dell executives and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The press release said that the new supercomputer will be named after Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and is expected to be operational at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2026.