Using Supercomputing to Create the World’s Most Fearsome Fly Swatter
The silverleaf whitefly is like a horrible house guest. It arrives uninvited with thousands of friends, trashes the place, eats everything in sight and then sticks you with a clean-up bill that runs...
View ArticleFrom Grand Challenge Applications to Critical Workflows for Exascale | Part I
(This is the first in a series of three posts. The second will discuss critical workflows in oil and gas and the life sciences while the last will speculate about machine learning techniques to...
View ArticleFrom Grand Challenge Applications to Critical Workflows for Exascale | Part II
(This is the second in a series of three blog entries. The first post introduced big data analytics and critical workflows, this one will discuss critical workflows in oil and gas and in the life...
View ArticleMachine Learning for Critical Workflows | Part III
(This is the third and last blog entry in a series of three. The first one introduced big data analytics and critical workflows. The second post discussed critical workflows in oil and gas and in life...
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Six Ways to Say “Hello” in Chapel | Part 1
When learning a new programming language, users often start by studying “Hello world” programs —those that output simple messages to the console. Though such programs are trivial by nature, they can be...
View ArticleWhy Do Better Weather Forecasts Matter?
Cray, NVIDIA, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and MeteoSwiss recently announced the acceptance of MeteoSwiss’ new supercomputing platform for operational weather forecasting, a Cray...
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Six Ways to Say “Hello” in Chapel | Part 2
This article continues the introduction to Chapel via simple “Hello world” programs that I started in part one of this series. Continuing where we left off: Distributed Parallel Hello World My last...
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Six Ways to Say “Hello” in Chapel | Part 3
This article concludes the introduction to Chapel via simple “Hello world” programs that I started in parts one and two of this series. In the previous articles, we’ve looked at serial and...
View ArticleDeepening Cray’s Involvement in Collaborative R&D and Codesign
Cray recently announced the birth of our new computing research organization for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the Cray EMEA Research Lab (CERL). Our investment in Europe is not new (the...
View ArticleEuropean Researchers Model the Human Brain
You may have seen recent news items regarding the Human Brain Project (HBP), a ten-year European neuroscience research initiative. Interactive computer simulation of brain models is central to its...
View ArticleIn Remembrance of Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards, one of our longstanding Board members, recently passed away and I wanted to reflect on his contributions to Cray and the impact he had on me personally. Steve joined Cray’s Board of...
View ArticleCan We Make Petabytes Useful?
A recent article in Nature, “The Power of Petabytes”, by Michael Eisenstein, reviews how exponentially increasing life science data exceeds our present abilities to process and make sense of it. Even...
View ArticleTop 5 Blog Posts From 2015
Happy New Year! Check out some of the top blog posts from 2015: Why Do Better Forecasts Matter? Meteorologists have been striving to increase the accuracy of their work since the first weather...
View Article5 Predictions of Where Supercomputing is Heading in 2016
From new processor technologies to quantum computing, 2016 promises to be another exciting year for supercomputing. Here are five predictions as to how the industry will push ahead in 2016: The year...
View ArticleIntel Broadwell Xeon Debuts on Cray XC and CS Series Supercomputers
Your next demanding compute challenge: Does it seem insurmountable? Need more cores? Higher base processor frequency? Faster memory? All of the above? Take a look at Cray’s integration of...
View ArticleNew Users Tap Titan for Another Year of World-Class Supercomputing Research
First-year INCITE researchers headline strong 2016 in advance of 2017 call for proposals At the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), we know that using a supercomputer can be challenging....
View ArticleChapel Springs into a Summer of Code
As spring arrives, a number of noteworthy events are taking place around the Chapel™ parallel language project at Cray. Here is a quick rundown of four recent highlights. Spring Chapel release The...
View ArticleBehind the Name: “Beagle” and “Beagle-2”
How do Cray customers name their systems? An occasional look at the stories behind the names. . From 1831 to 1836, Charles Darwin journeyed around the world as the naturalist aboard the HMS Beagle....
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High School Students Thinking Big – Really Big
In February, Cray received a letter from Hugo, a 10th-grade student at John F. Kennedy Middle College High School in Norco, Calif. We receive many letters from people with a variety of questions or...
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Bringing History Alive with Supercomputing
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre currently houses “Magnus,” a Cray® XC40™ supercomputer that is the most powerful research supercomputer in the southern hemisphere. Magnus supports more than 800...
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