Earth Sciences

Cray Inc.'s XT MPP provides extreme performance to meet the comprehensive demands of the earth sciences community.  Industry leading computing performance, advanced model development tools and data management are integrated in a single solution.  Only systems designed for HPC capability allow scientists and forecasters to produce results in the shortest amount of time possible while investigating increasingly complex phenomena.

Once strictly the domain of large national weather centers, the need to investigate this complex phenomena extends to an ever-growing user community, including smaller research centers who also have the need for balanced computing solutions. 

The Cray XT MPP is the ideal solution to meet the challenging needs of the earth sciences community. Cray’s family of supercomputers offers solutions to users across this spectrum.

3D Seismic Earthquake Models - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Explaining the Origin of Libyan Desert Glass - Sandia National Laboratories
Long Term Global Climate Solutions - Sandia National Laboratories
NERSC News: Weather and Climate

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Predictions at the Extreme - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review >>
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