Over the past several years, we have seen tremendous momentum in the worldwide adoption of Cray supercomputers.  Every day, I hear about exciting scientific progress that Cray customers have made as a result of the unprecedented scalability, capability and performance of their Cray systems.  I also hear from our employees, who not only thrive on designing, building, and supporting some of the most innovative supercomputers ever built, but who also believe that providing world-class supercomputers will ultimately result in significant impacts to communities throughout the world.  While I often get to share these stories with individuals and smaller audiences, I realize that there is a broader set of people who would also enjoy hearing about what is new and exciting at our company.  As a result, I'm happy to introduce you to the first Cray bimonthly newsletter. 

 

I hope that you enjoy hearing about Cray - our customers, partners, and employees - and the cutting-edge world of supercomputing.  Be sure to let us know what you think and how we can improve this newsletter and, of course, don't hesitate to send us your stories about how you are using supercomputers to make breakthroughs and improve the competitiveness of your organizations.

 

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In This Issue
Two Cray Supercomputers Surpass the 100 Teraflops Mark
Medical Research Benefits from Cray System
Cray's Vision: Adaptive Supercomputing
Blast from the Past
Two Cray Supercomputers Surpass the 100 Teraflops Mark
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Two Cray supercomputers are now in an elite group of systems that can perform computations at more than 100 teraflops, as measured by the industry-standard TOP500 benchmark.  The Cray systems, one installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the other at Sandia National Laboratories, are now two of the three fastest computers in the world.  They are built on a Cray XT infrastructure that enables Cray customers to upgrade to increasingly higher performance levels, instead of forcing them to invest in an entirely new system.
 
Medical Research Benefits from Cray System
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Research teams using a Cray supercomputer at Rice University's Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) have developed computational techniques that will eventually assist medical workers in diagnosing and treating some of the most devastating diseases afflicting humans - ranging from cerebral aneurysms to illnesses such as bacterial/viral infections and cancer.

Cray's Vision:  Adaptive Supercomputing

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Cray is committed to developing supercomputers that will take the concept of heterogeneous computing to an entirely new level by integrating a range of processing technologies in a single platform. These "adaptive supercomputing" systems will be able to solve scientific and engineering problems more quickly - and make programmers and end users more productive - by adapting processing to the requirements of each application.

 

Blast from the Past...

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The Cray-2, designed by Seymour Cray, was the world's first immersion-cooled supercomputer system.  Appearing in 1985, it has a processor speed of 475 MFLOPS and a system peak speed of 1.9 GFLOPS, a ten-fold increase over the Cray-1.  It also had a 4GB (512MW) memory. 
 
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