The Perlmutter supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, in 2022. The new supercomputer from a Department of Energy lab shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial AI systems. — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory via The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO: 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.
