Cray – CRAY – Signs $40 Million Supercomputer Agreement With NERSC

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) announced it will install a next-generation Cray supercomputer code-named “Cascade” and a next-generation Cray Sonexion storage system at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).

Cray’s Cascade system will provide an innovative supercomputing resource to NERSC users working to advance open science research in climate modeling, biology, environmental sciences, combustion, materials science, chemistry, geosciences, fusion energy, astrophysics, nuclear and high-energy physics, and other disciplines, along with scientific visualization of massive data sets. NERSC is also home to a Cray XE6 supercomputer, named “Hopper.”

“From energy efficient batteries to climate change, NERSC’s 4,500 users are tackling problems that are of vital importance to our nation’s competiveness and sustainability, so it is critical that our next system NERSC-7, deliver readily accessible performance on real-world applications,” says Kathy Yelick, Associate Laboratory Director of Computing Sciences at Berkeley Lab.

According to Yelick, it is also important that NERSC provide supercomputing resources to users in an energy efficient manner, and she says the new Cray system will enable many pioneering features on this front, including the ability to run year-round using “free-cooling” at the NERSC site. “This approach utilizes water from cooling towers only, not mechanical chillers, to provide exceptional energy efficiency. The moderate Bay Area climate combined with Cray’s new design will allow us to keep power for cooling to less than 10 percent of the power used for computing,” said Jeff Broughton, head of NERSC’s System’s Department.

“The researchers and scientists at NERSC are tackling an amazing set of important challenges across a wide range of scientific disciplines, and we are incredibly honored to provide their vast user community with a productive environment that also delivers high sustained performance,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. “Our development team has been busy working on our future products and we are very excited to see that the new innovations in our next generation of supercomputers and storage solutions are meeting the needs of leading customers such as NERSC. They are a great partner and we are excited that our relationship with them will continue.”

About Cray Inc. – CRAY

As a global leader in supercomputing, CRAY provides highly advanced supercomputers and world-class services and support to government, industry and academia. Cray technology is designed to enable scientists and engineers to achieve remarkable breakthroughs by accelerating performance, improving efficiency and extending the capabilities of their most demanding applications. Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative next-generation products that integrate diverse processing technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to surpass today’s limitations and meeting the market’s continued demand for realized performance.

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