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Bloomberg
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
CRISPR Is Direct Result of Federal Funding: Doudna
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to divert billions in grant dollars away from Harvard University and give those funds to trade schools across the US, escalating his clash with the elite institution. Jennifer Doudna, a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for development of CRISPR gene editing said that federal funding is essential for search like hers to start. (Source: Bloomberg)
NBC News
05-06-2025
- Health
- NBC News
Sickle cell patient meets scientist behind technology that saved her life
Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR, a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by Dr. Jennifer Doudna who won the Nobel Prize for the life saving technology. NBC News' Zinhle Essamuah sits down with Gray and Doudna as they meet for the first time. June 5, 2025
CBS News
05-06-2025
- Science
- CBS News
New Doudna supercomputer at Berkeley lab to power AI research
A new supercomputer meant to power artificial intelligence will soon be built for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in partnership with the Department of Energy, Dell Technologies and Nvidia. "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," said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Huang was joined by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright who made the announcement last week at the Berkeley Lab. "It's going to lead to tremendous advancement in science, and it's also going to play a role in national defense," said Wright. "And that is what makes it so critical that the United States lead in artificial intelligence." The new computer will be called Doudna, named after UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2020 for her work in gene editing technology CRISPR. "I can't wait to see what Doudna is going to calculate," she said. "For me, it really signifies the coming together of computing and biology. This is the future. This is how the next breakthroughs are going to be made." The Doudna computer will be built by next year and will go online and become available to scientists in 2027. Currently, the Berkeley Lab is home to the Perlmutter supercomputer, which is the 19th fastest computer in the world, and part of the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center, known as NERSC, which connects 11,000 scientists worldwide. "So, NERSC is available for anyone who is researching a scientific problem that is related to the Department of Energy's mission," said Jonathan Carter, Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Those missions include creating nuclear fusion simulations, biological research, climate projections, and even mapping the universe. "So, imagine you have a really souped-up laptop or a gaming PC, and imagine you could put 10,000 of them together tightly, so that any one program that you are running could execute on all those 10,000 CPUs at the same time," explained Carter. Once the Doudna supercomputer is built, it is expected to be at least 10 times faster than the Perlmutter computer. Currently, the world's fastest computer is El Capitan, which is housed also in the Bay Area at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nvidia and Dell to Build DOE-Backed AI Supercomputer 'Doudna' for 2026 Launch
Nvidia (NVDA, Financials) and Dell (DELL, Financials) on Thursday announced a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop the Doudna supercomputer, which will be deployed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2026. The DOE said the system is named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and will be powered by Dell infrastructure and Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI platform. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with NVDA. Doudna's performance output is expected to exceed that of Berkeley Lab's current Perlmutter system by a factor of three to five, while requiring only double or triple the power. According to the Department of Energy, the system will support high-performance computing workloads ranging from molecular dynamics to AI model training. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the project will advance American leadership in science, AI, and high-performance computing. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the project a time machine for science, enabling faster discovery across cancer treatments, quantum breakthroughs and foundational physics. The DOE said Doudna will support over 11,000 researchers and will bring together simulation, AI, and massive data sets on a single platform. Dell CEO Michael Dell (Trades, Portfolio) said the system would redefine the limits of high-performance computing and help address global scientific challenges. Investors may view the Doudna contract as a long-term catalyst for Nvidia and Dell, reinforcing their roles in national strategic infrastructure. Key upcoming events to watch include AI chip demand updates and the DOE's rollout timeline. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Indian Express
02-06-2025
- Business
- Indian Express
US Energy Department unveils supercomputer that merges with AI
Scientific computing and artificial intelligence were once separate worlds, using different kinds of calculations on distinctly different hardware. But the two fields are steadily merging, as shown by a massive new machine coming to Berkeley, California. On Thursday, the Department of Energy's laboratory near the University of California, Berkeley, said it had selected Dell Technologies to deliver its next flagship supercomputer in 2026. The system will use Nvidia chips tailored for AI calculations and the simulations common to energy research and other scientific fields. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory expects the new machine — to be named for Jennifer Doudna, a Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry — to offer more than a tenfold speed boost over the lab's most powerful current system. If fully outfitted, the machine could be the Energy Department's biggest resource for tasks like training AI models, said Jonathan Carter, associate laboratory director for computing sciences at the Berkeley center. The supercomputer stands out for its technology choices, which indicate the growing desire for government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial AI systems. Nvidia chips, though widely used by big cloud companies as well as in supercomputers, were passed over by the Energy Department for three previous record-setting machines that were assembled by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Dell has hardly been a player in the highest end of the supercomputer market, but it has had success in large commercial AI installations. 'HPE has been sweeping the DOE space,' said Addison Snell, the CEO of Intersect360 Research, which tracks the supercomputer market. 'This is a big win for Dell.' Chris Wright, secretary of energy, who has compared AI's development to the Manhattan Project, called the Doudna machine a key tool for winning the global AI race in remarks prepared for a Thursday event in Berkeley to announce the system.
