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| Cray and Intel |
 Exciting new things continue to "spring up" at Cray. Having recently announced the signing of a comprehensive multi-year agreement with Intel, we aim to collaborate on an engineer-to-engineer level and leverage each others' powerful R&D resources in order to advance high-performance computing. We plan to deliver new Intel and Cray technologies in future Cray supercomputers, while at the same time improving our ability to meet a wider range of customer needs.
In addition to our current partnership with AMD, we will be positioned to provide our customers with additional capabilities and choices, providing the best microprocessors the industry has to offer, at any point in time, in the most scalable supercomputers in the world -- all part of our Adaptive Supercomputing vision. |
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NAOJ's Cray XT4TM |
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The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has accepted its Cray XT4 supercomputer with AMD Opteron quad-core technology. The new system is located at NAOJ's Center for Computational Astrophysics (CfCA) and will be used for research on the origin of planetary systems and galaxies and the formation of stars and star clusters. |
| Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach Awards Nominations |
 The prestigious Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award and the Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award recognize outstanding achievement in the field of supercomputing. The Seymour Cray award is given to individuals whose innovative contributions to high performance computing best exemplify the creative spirit of Seymour Cray. The Sidney Fernbach Memorial award recognizes innovative uses of high performance computing for the solution of large computational problems. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, these prestigious honors are presented during special sessions held at SC08 in November.
Nominations are now being accepted. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2008. The nomination form, and the required endorsements, should be submitted via the IEEE Computer Society website. |
| Simulating Air Launches of Decoy Aircraft |
 The U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) had a challenge: to create highly detailed simulations of the launch of Miniature Air Launched Decoys (MALDs) -- unmanned, 250-lb. jet vehicles -- from Air Force aircraft. The MALD simulation team used Sapphire, the Cray XT3TM system at ERDC's MSRC to perform calculations in a fraction of the time it would have taken using in-house computing resources. With the ability to efficiently scale the set of computational fluid dynamics applications to thousands of processors, the team rapidly completed the simulation and certified the safety of the MALD project on time.
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| Scientists Study DNA Interactions |
 Utilizing the power of a Cray XT4 supercomputer (a/k/a "Franklin") at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), scientists from the University of California at Irvine plan to simulate the complex interactions of human DNA with proteins and nanoparticles. Their goal is to solve key problems relative to designing and delivering anti-cancer drugs and gene therapy.
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| INCITE Call for Proposals |
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The DOE's Department of Science is accepting proposals for the 2009 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program now through August 11. Open to all scientific researchers and research organizations, the program offers high performance computing resources for computationally intensive research projects of large scale that can also make high-impact scientific advances. Awards are expected to be announced in December 2008.
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| Cray joins the "Green Grid" |
 The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Socially responsible "Green" technology also means compute efficiency. By defining user-centric models and metrics; developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve performance; and promoting the adoption of energy efficient stardards, processes, measurements and technologies, data centers and the equipment that go into them will not only be more efficient, but they will also have a competitive advantage.
Cray has always been a leader in power and energy efficiency in high-end computing. With one of the key attributes of Cray's systems being upgradeability, we have always designed our supercomputers using the fewest raw materials and enabling our customers to greatly extend the life of their system. Cray continues to advance the state of power and cooling technologies, including liquid cooling which has been a part of Cray systems for the last 20 years.
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