The Cray CX1 is designed to support a variety of workloads, combining exceptional performance with ease-of-use and management — supercomputing performance at a reasonable price. The CX1 can be easily deployed in the office or departmental environment, providing scientists a personal platform for their research.
"We intend to use the Cray CX1 to execute complex environmental modeling simulations as an initial demonstration of the the Performance Assessment Institute (PAI) initiative led by Sandia National Laboratories in conjunction with UNLV. The CX1 is of particular interest to us because of its ability to support Windows-based applications like GoldSim."
Joseph Lombardo, Director National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (NSCEE) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
"PBS Professional on the affordable new Cray CX1 supercomputer will make job submission and workload scheduling easy for scientists, designers, financial analysts and engineers across all environments. In an era of shrinking budgets, this joint solution will enable administrators to get maximum value from computing resources through greater efficiency and utilization. In addition, combining RADIOSS, Altair’s next-generation multidisciplinary finite-element solver, will provide improved simulation quality and speed for advanced product development. We look forward to expand our successful and long-standing relationship with Cray and work together to make PBS Professional and RADIOSS available on the Cray CX1."
Bill Nitzberg, CTO, PBS GridWorks, Altair Engineering
"Through our partnership with Red Hat, Platform Computing has joined with industry pioneer and leader Cray Inc. to offer Cray CX1 customers the option to easily deploy, run and manage the entire life cycle of its cluster with the Red Hat HPC Solution. The Red Hat HPC Solution is a fully integrated, easy-to-deploy, Linux-based software stack leveraging the powerful cluster software framework of Platform Open Cluster Stack 5 and the world-class performance, security and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
Tripp Purvis, Vice President, Business Development at Platform Computing