NERSC
Redefining scientific discovery with AI supercomputing
Customer - NERSC
Industry - Energy
Location - United States
Vision
NERSC envisions a next-generation AI supercomputing platform that seamlessly integrates simulation, modeling, and data workflows to accelerate scientific discovery, empower over 12,000 researchers, and advance U.S. leadership in energy innovation, sustainability, and secure, sovereign computing capabilities.
Solution
In partnership with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, the new Doudna supercomputer integrates NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin architecture, advanced simulation and AI, with liquid-cooled infrastructure to power quantum computing, physics, genomics, and other data-intensive scientific workflows with scalable, energy-efficient performance.
Impact
Doudna will enable up to 10x performance gains, allowing researchers to compress years of scientific discovery into days. It strengthens U.S. data sovereignty, accelerates breakthroughs in energy and science while empowering innovation across diverse disciplines at unprecedented speed.
“By combining AI, simulation and data-intensive workflows, Doudna enables our researchers to model quantum systems, and explore new pathways to fuel the energy breakthroughs of tomorrow.”
Sudip Dosanjh, Director, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) partnered with Dell Technologies and NVIDIA to develop Doudna, an AI-native supercomputer designed to revolutionize scientific research. With 10x performance improvements and 3–5x energy efficiency through liquid cooling, Doudna enables real-time insights, accelerates breakthroughs in fields like quantum research and fusion energy, and supports over 11,000 researchers. This collaboration ensures sustainable, scalable, and secure advancements in U.S. scientific innovation.