<ul><li>Nvidia's next-gen Vera-Rubin accelerators will power the US Department of Energy's new supercomputer, Doudna, a switch from the usual Cray-AMD partnership.</li><li>The Doudna system, named after Jennifer Doudna, promises a 10x increase in scientific output while consuming 2-3x less power compared to its predecessor, Perlmutter.</li><li>Nvidia's focus on AI workloads with Blackwell Ultra accelerators raises questions about the double-precision performance of the Vera-Rubin superchips in the Doudna system.</li><li>The Doudna supercomputer is designed to support a variety of scientific workloads, including real-time plasma modeling and quantum computing research, catered to around 11,000 researchers.</li></ul>

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