During a visit to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the energy secretary Chris Wright announced today a new contract with Dell Technologies to develop NersC-10, the next flagship supercomputer from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a US Department of Energy (DEE) user service at Berkeley Lab. The new system, due in 2026, will be appointed according to Jennifer Doudna, the Biochemist based in Berkeley Lab who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020 in recognition of his work on CRISPR genetic publishing technology.
The new supercomputer, a Dell Technologies system powered by the NVIDIA New Generation Vera Rubin platform will be designed to take charge of high performance IT workloads (HPC) such as those of molecular dynamics, high energy physics and AI training and inference.
“THE Cuddly The system represents the commitment of the DoE to advance American leadership in science, AI and high performance IT, “said the American Energy Secretary Chris Wright.” It will be a central innovation that will transform our efforts to develop abundant and affordable energy supplies and progressive breakthroughs in IT Quantum. Cuddly Will help that American scientists have the tools they need to win the global race for the domination of AI. »»
THE Cuddly Supercompute will provide more than ten times the performance of PerlmutterNERSC’s current flagship supercomputer. Cuddly will be built using advanced technology such as the most advanced orv3 server technology the most advanced of Dell and the CPU-GPU Nvidia Vera-Rubin platform.
“At Dell Technologies, we empower researchers from around the world by transparently integrating simulation, data and AI to meet the most complex challenges of the world,” said Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. “Our collaboration with the Ministry of Energy on Cuddly Underlines a shared vision to redefine the limits of high performance IT and stimulates innovation that accelerates human progress. »»
“”Cuddly is a time machine for science – compression of years of discovery in days, “said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.” Built with Doe and fed by the Vera Rubin platform of Nvidia, it will allow scientists to immerse themselves and think greater to seek the fundamental truths of the universe. “”
“THE Cuddly The supercomputer is designed to speed up a large set of scientific workflows. We collaborate with NVIDIA and DELL to prepare our 11,000 users to effectively use the new fascinating capacities of workflow in this system, “said NERSC director Sudip Dosanjh.”Cuddly will be connected to the experimental and observational installations of the DOE through the energy science network (ESNET), allowing scientists to disseminate data transparently in the system of all parts of the country and to analyze it in almost real time. »»
Cuddly should play a central role in the progression of high priority breakthroughs in a range of scientific and technological fields; For example, NersC was founded to support the search for merger, and Cuddly is about to propel the next wave of merger innovators, providing computer power to transform decades of promises into practical and abundant supplies.
In addition, the powerful GPUs of the system will allow researchers funded by Doe to transparently integrate the AI on a large scale into their simulation and data analysis workflows, to accelerate discovery in fields such as the advanced design of materials, biomolecular modeling and fundamental physics.
Cuddly will also take care of the cutting-edge quantum simulation tools, including the Cuda-q CUDA-Q platform, to allow the development of evolving quantum algorithm, modeling and verification of large-scale quantum computers and co-design of future quantum-HPC integrated systems.
The new supercomputer will be propelled by Dell Integrated Rack Stable Systems and Poweredge Servers with NVIDIA accelerators for workloads optimized and optimized by calculation, an NVIDIA Quantum-X800 network environment with high speed, and a heterogeneous workflow environment that can be refined to support complex workflows. Data management and storage solutions will offer a high performance parallel file system system and a service quality storage system, offering a reliable and resilient platform that supports multi-facility integrated sciences, automated IA and interactive computer workflows in real time.
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Located in Berkeley Lab, Nersc is the High Performance Mission IT installation for the Doe Office of Science, supporting more than 11,000 scientists and 800 projects per year.
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