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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced on the 29th that the U.S. Department of Energy has signed a contract with Dell to create a new flagship supercomputer powered by Nvidia chips. According to a press release from the laboratory, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the laboratory on that day and announced the contract with Dell to develop the next-generation flagship supercomputer for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) under the Department of Energy. Wright, along with Dell executives and Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun, announced the cooperation. The press release stated that the new supercomputer will be named after Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory biochemist and 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna, and is expected to be operational at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2026. (Xinhua News Agency).