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SC09 just weeks away! |
 Cray is looking forward to seeing you at this year's SC09 conference and exhibit being held November 14-20 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Cray Booth 1525 will showcase the latest Cray XTTM and Cray CX1TM product line enhancements, along with several new and exiciting partner demos. Check the SC09 technical program for tutorials and papers by Cray experts and Cray system users.
While you're there or following from afar, twitter along with Cray to keep up with what's going on at SC09 and participate in contests for great prizes.
At Cray we thrive on big challenges, whether it's scaling to petaflops speeds, bringing high performance computing to your deskside, or how to keep it "green." Come by Booth 1525 and see how we're doing it! |
| Cray President and CEO Nominated for HPC Community Leadership Award |
 On October 16, the online publication InsideHPC released information on their "HPC Community Leadership Awards". There are two awards - one that recognizes an individual person and the other that recognizes an organization. There are five nominees for the individual award and four for the organization award.
Our own President and CEO, Peter Ungaro, is among the candidates for the individual award. Voting will continue through the end of October and the winners will be announced during SC09. |
| Cray Awarded Supercomputer Contract from Korea Meteorological Administration |
Last month Cray announced that it has signed a multi-year, multi-phase contract to provide the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) with a next-generation supercomputer. Valued at more than $40 million, the award is one of the largest in the area of operational numerical weather prediction in the world to-date, and will provide KMA with the necessary supercomputing, storage and data management technologies to reinforce its position as one of the world's premier weather forecasting and research centers.
"We are quite proud that KMA has once again turned to Cray to provide the necessary supercomputing capabilities to meet the demanding requirements of weather forecasting and climate research, which are important segments for our business," said Peter Ungaro, Cray president and CEO. "Once completed, the Cray supercomputer at KMA will be the largest integrated solution for operational numerical weather prediction in the Asia Pacific region and one of the largest in the world -- another strong proof point for not only our current Cray XT5 supercomputer, but also future systems we are in the process of developing and will be delivering as part of this contract. We are honored to be able to help KMA scientists and researchers provide more detailed and accurate numerical weather predictions in support of their mission of identifying the potential of severe weather systems in a more timely fashion."
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| Cray Acquires PathScale Compiler Suite Assets From SiCortex |
Cray recently announced that it has acquired the PathScale Compiler Suite assets from SiCortex. The company plans to leverage some of the PathScale intellectual property to enhance Cray's own compiler offerings over time. The company will contribute other parts of the PathScale intellectual property to the open source community through an alliance with NetSyncro.com, an organization of compiler engineers with strong open source ties. NetSyncro.com will continue developing the PathScale Compiler Suite, provide support for users of the software and will rebrand the effort under the original PathScale name.
"Our main goal for this acquisition was to provide clear direction for those Cray customers who want to continue using the PathScale Compiler Suite on Cray supercomputers," said Peter Ungaro, Cray president and CEO. Read more |
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Kraken Petaflops System Featured |
Knoxville TV station WBIR recently featured the Cray XT5 system Kraken on their local news report. Kraken has made headlines recently after an upgrade pushed it to petaflops peformance, making it the world's fastest academic computer.
Click here more information about UT's Kraken and joint projects between UT and ORNL, through the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences. |
| Red Storm Simulates Dinosaur-Age Meteor Impact |
The National Geographic Channel program "Earthshocks: The Meteor That Made the Dinosaurs" features the Red Storm system at Sandia National Laboratories and Dr. Mark Boslough's research simulating a large meteor impact. Boslough's theory is that the meteor impact that is thought to have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs is also responsible for the creation of a volcanic hot spot on the other side of the globe. This antipital focusing is the subject of the simulations being run on Red Storm, building on similar research from a decade ago.
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| Now Computing at NERSC |
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 NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, is the flagship high performance scientific computing facility for research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Franklin, NERSC's Cray XT4, is among the largest machines on the list of Top 500 supercomputers in the world.
At any time you can visit the NERSC web site and see a real-time sample of high performance computing jobs currently running at the site. Click here to check out "Now Computing."
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