India, May 30 -- U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has announced a new contract with Dell Technologies to develop NERSC-10, the next flagship supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, to speed up scientific discovery.

a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facility at Berkeley Lab.

The new system, due in 2026, will be named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist who was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry in recognition of her work on the gene-editing technology CRISPR.

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 workloads like those in molecular ...