| Cray CX1 Deskside Supercomputer Now Available With Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series |
 The Cray CX1™ deskside supercomputer will now ship with the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series, formerly code-named "Nehalem." Intel's new generation of intelligent processors accelerates performance, saves energy and features more than three times greater memory bandwidth than the previous-generation dual-socket architecture.
"The Cray CX1 system is designed to drive high performance computing farther into the mainstream, and we are delighted with the excitement the system has generated with customers and our reseller partners," said Ian Miller, senior vice president of the productivity solutions group and marketing at Cray. "Incorporating the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series into our deskside supercomputer is another important milestone as customers can now benefit from the combination of 'ease of everything' supercomputing and the performance boost of Intel Xeon."
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| Cray XT5mTM System Expands Market for Successful Petaflops Technology |
 At a technical workshop co-hosted with the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart ( HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, Cray announced the launch of the new Cray XT5m line of midrange supercomputers, making the company's world-leading high performance computing (HPC) technology available to a broader set of users. HLRS is the first Cray XT5m customer.
"The new Cray XT5m product scales down Cray's successful high-end Cray XT™ architecture to cover the entire supercomputer market segment that starts at $500,000, expanding Cray's total addressable market in the process," said Earl Joseph, IDC program vice president for HPC. "Cray now has an opportunity to benefit from both a larger addressable market and the projected growth in the complete supercomputer segment."
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Kraken Unleashed! |
It's official: the world's fastest university-managed supercomputer is now up and running in East Tennessee. Kraken, the Cray XT5 TM supercomputer located at the National Center for Computational Sciences ( NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratories ( ORNL) for the University of Tennessee, passed its early testing and has officially been accepted to begin its designated scientific mission. NCCS is a partnership between ORNL and the University of Tennessee, funded by a $65 million grant from the National Science Foundation ( NSF).
Kraken, named after a mythological sea monster, was put through its paces on a series of tests designed to use the machine's full computing power to gauge its abilities and to ensure it can withstand the coming months of data-intensive simulations. "Kraken will be a premiere simulation science tool for years to come, greatly enhancing both our knowledge of the world and our ability to translate that knowledge for human benefit," said NCCS head Thomas Zacharia.
New UT Supercomputer Enters the Top 20
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| Cray XT5 "Pingo" Dedicated at ARSC |
The evolution of the Arctic Region Supercomputer Center's ( ARSC) high performance computing machines, from a 4-CPU Cray Y-MP ® named Denali, to a 3,456-processor Cray XT5 named Pingo, was marked in a ceremony held at the University of Alaska Museum of the North March 5.
Cray Inc. President and CEO Peter Ungaro joined ARSC Director Frank Williams, University of Alaska Fairbanks Chancellor Brian Rogers and UAF Vice Chancellor for Research Virgil "Buck" Sharpton in a virtual ribbon-cutting to dedicate Pingo, the newest supercomputer at ARSC.
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| Primeur Talks With Cray's Per Nyberg About Earth Sciences |
Climate Change is of course global and no respecter of national boundaries. The heat wave in Spain and extreme flooding in the UK in 2008 are but two examples of extreme weather in Europe. For HPC vendors the earth sciences segment provides a great business opportunity across the globe. Both improved predictability of severe weather events and climate change assessments for policy makers are high on national governments agendas.
Journalist Chris Lazou spoke with Per Nyberg, Cray's director of marketing and business development for earth sciences following the 11th International Specialist Meeting on the Next Generation of Models on Climate Change and Sustainability for Advanced High Performance Computing Facilities held at Oak Ridge National Laboratories ( ORNL) in mid-March. |
| Cray Forms New Subsidiary in India |
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Cray recently formed a new wholly-owned subsidiary in India aimed at strengthening its presence in that country's growing High Performance Computing (HPC) marketplace. "The senior management at Cray has felt for some time that the company needed to expand its footprint in India to provide a strong, local presence for our customers," said Andrew Wyatt, vice president, Cray Asia Pacific. "The country's HPC market is of rising importance, and establishing a new subsidiary allows us to seamlessly deliver our supercomputing expertise to both new and existing Cray customers in India."
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