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Cray CXTM Product Line Expands! |
The Cray CX product line recently expanded to include both the Cray CX1TM deskside supercomputer and the new Cray CX1-LCTM "light configuration" deskside supercomputer.
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Listen to a candid HPCWire podcast interview with Cray President and CEO Peter Ungaro about the Cray CX1-LC and Cray's overall business outlook.
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| Q&A With Cray CTO |
 On August 10th Primeur magazine spoke with Cray chief technology officer Steve Scott at ISC09 in Hamburg, Germany. In this interview Scott explains how Cray is growing steadily, in spite of current economic challenges. |
| NERSC Awards Supercomputer Contract to Cray |
 Earlier this month it was announced that Cray won the contract to install a next-generation supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center ( NERSC) located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The multi-year supercomputing contract includes delivery of a Cray XT5TM massively parallel processor supercomputer, which will be upgraded to a future-generation Cray supercomputer. When completed, the new Cray will deliver a peak performance of more than one petaflops (quadrillion mathematical calculations per second).
Like NERSC's current 355-teraflops Cray XT4 TM system, nicknamed " Franklin," the new supercomputing system will help advance open science research in climate modeling, biology, environmental sciences, combustion, materials science, chemistry, geosciences, fusion energy, astrophysics, nuclear and high-energy physics, and other disciplines, along with scientific visualization of massive data sets.
Click here for more information about the scientific work done on Franklin. |
| Cray Receives Contract to Upgrade "Jaguar" Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
We also recently announced that the company has received a contract from the Department of Energy to upgrade the Cray XT5 " Jaguar" supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The upgrade to Six-Core AMD Opteron TM processors, code-named "Istanbul," will increase Jaguar's peak performance to more than two petaflops (quadrillion mathematical calculations per second) of compute power, solidifying its position as the world's most powerful supercomputer. 
The contract to upgrade the Jaguar system will increase the number of the Cray XT5 supercomputer's processing cores to more than 224,000. The upgrade is expected to be installed and accepted by the end of 2009.
Click here more information about AMD's "Istanbul" |
| Cray CX Line "Pick of the Week" at Desktop Engineering Magazine |
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Cray expands its HPC offerings for more engineers and scientists with lower cost supercomputer
Desktop Engineering Magazine editor-at-large Anthony Lockwood writes, "The idea behind the CX1 line is to get HPC and cluster computing into engineering, research, and scientific workgroups that have been shut out by the price and the lack of IT expertise to put all the pieces together. The CX1-LC is designed and optimized to be the HPC supercomputer that you design and optimize for what you do, with as little of the IT setup fussing around as possible."
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| Helping Industrial Companies Decrease Air Pollution |
 Governments throughout the world set limits on the level of air pollutants that may come from industrial sources. In a report on air pollution published in 2008, the EPA states that since 1990 emissions of the six most common pollutants from all sources have dropped by 41 percent. This progress is credited to the joint efforts of government, industry, academia, and environmental groups.
One of the tools that industrial companies use to reduce toxins is air dispersion modeling software, which simulates the physical and chemical processes that affect air pollutants in the atmosphere. This software uses complex mathematical equations and algorithms to process data on meteorological conditions, emissions rates, and other pertinent factors.
To solve the problem of speed, Lakes Environmental deployed a single Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer running Windows® HPC Server 2008. Lakes' head of software Mike Johnson researched the Cray CX1 supercomputer on the Web and discovered that it met their technical and pricing requirements. So within three days he ordered the machine sight unseen, without even talking with Cray technical consultants. "Coming from Cray, we knew that the engineering and hardware were going to be rock-solid. Combined with the HPC solution from Microsoft, it offered the perfect solution for our needs."
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