Five Things You Need to Know About Cray Supercomputing in the Azure Cloud
1. It’s the cloud, without compromise (and it’s OK to be selfish). It’s really yours and you can finally say you have your very own dedicated (reserve instance) Cray supercomputer running your (big...
View ArticleWhy Artificial Intelligence Needs HPC
As we work with our customers on their artificial intelligence (AI) journeys, we are finding that a range of approaches are being taken by distinct organizations to implement AI. We recently had an...
View ArticleWhat’s Hiding in Your Performance Toolkit?
Similar to the old adage “you cannot judge a book by its cover,” estimating the performance of an application on thousands of nodes of a massively parallel computer cannot be done by investigating the...
View ArticleCray and Microsoft Partner to Bring Cray Supercomputers to Azure
This week we announced an exciting new strategic alliance with Microsoft that will make Cray systems available in Microsoft Azure, giving users access to all the supercomputing power they need without...
View ArticleGetting the Most From the New Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors on HPC Workloads
July brought news of the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, previously known by the codename Skylake, and with it new features and capabilities that can bring performance enhancements...
View ArticleHow HPC Can Help Tap the Power of Ocean Waves
“What’s amazing about ocean wave energy is the enormity of the resource sitting there,” says Ashkan Rafiee. “Whoever solves this riddle will make a huge impact on the world.” Dr. Rafiee is the...
View ArticleCHIUW 2017: Surveying the Chapel Landscape
CHIUW 2017 — the 4th Annual Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop — was held last month in Orlando, Fla., in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2017. Right out of the gate, attendees heard about a number of...
View ArticleData-Intensive Computing to Simulate the Brain
Understanding how the human brain works will take more than brains. Along with the planet’s smartest scientific minds, it will take never-before-achieved computing capabilities. The science and...
View ArticleCray’s New Urika-XC Suite: the Convergence of Supercomputing and Analytics
Cray today announced the launch of the Cray® Urika®-XC analytics software suite, which brings graph analytics, deep learning and robust big data analytics tools to the company’s flagship line of Cray®...
View ArticleLeidos and Cray to Offer Multi-Level Security Solutions
Cray and Leidos, a global science and technology solutions leader, have signed a strategic alliance agreement to offer Multi-Level Security (MLS) solutions that include the Cray® CS™ series of cluster...
View ArticleCray System Helps Cut Jet Fuel Burn by 15 Percent
Consider the engine power required to get a plane off the ground. And then consider the engineering that goes into it. Brian Mitchell does. Every day. The senior principal engineer at GE Global...
View ArticleCray CEO Discusses New Supercomputing as a Service
Cray’s president and chief executive officer, Peter Ungaro, offers insights into the company’s new supercomputing-as-a-service offering, in partnership with Markley. The first industry offering is the...
View ArticleCray Users from Around the World Meet at CUG 2017
Across Lake Washington from Cray’s downtown Seattle headquarters is the small city of Redmond, Wash. Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft. But last week, it was the location for this year’s...
View ArticleMarkley and Cray Offer Supercomputing as a Service
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. and Markley, a premier provider of datacenter space and cloud computing services, today announced a partnership to provide supercomputing-as-a-service solutions...
View ArticleCray Announces Production-Ready AI Cluster Supercomputers
Cray today announced the launch of two new Cray® CS-Storm™ accelerated cluster supercomputers – the Cray CS-Storm 500GT and the Cray CS-Storm 500NX. Purpose-built for the most demanding artificial...
View ArticleOriginal Cray-1 Supercomputer Unveiled in Seattle
If seeing an original Cray-1 or Cray-2 supercomputer is on your bucket list, it’s time to book a trip to Seattle. Living Computers: Museum + Labs, which offers hands-on experiences with all types of...
View ArticleCray HPC Awards Honor Achievements in India
Cray presented its 2017 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam HPC Awards earlier this month in New Delhi, India. Dr. Kalam was the president of India from 2002 to 2007, and was a world-renowned space scientist. The...
View ArticleCray Centers of Excellence Help Advance HPC for All
In 2003 Cray signed a contract with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the installation of a Cray® X1™ supercomputer. This contract led to the creation of a program that continues to support Cray...
View ArticleAustralian CIO Honored for Deployment of Cray System
Putting a 1.6 PF supercomputer into production on time and on budget with no interruptions to one of the world’s top meteorological agencies: amazing. And it brought well-earned kudos to Dr. Lesley...
View ArticleDataWarp™ I/O Accelerator Speeds Scientific Discovery at NERSC
Scientists and researchers worldwide rely upon the scalability of Cray® XC™ supercomputing systems to solve their problems faster than our competition can. So when the productivity of the highly...
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