Optimizing Performance for Diverse Computing Requirements
When you have as many as 600 different projects and 6,000+ diverse users, how do you implement a supercomputing solution to address such a broad range of applications? How do you optimize the code...
View ArticleCray recognized by Forrester and Gartner
Cray is fortunate to have earned the recognition and loyalty of customers worldwide. We’re also honored to receive industry recognition, as is the case with two recent reports from industry analyst...
View ArticleNCSA Celebrates 30 Years
Congratulations to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on their 30th anniversary of solving complex problems in science and society. Cray and NCSA have grown together over three decades...
View ArticleChapel Completes First “Summer of Code”
The Chapel team recently concluded our first Google Summer of Code (GSoC), which we introduced in our spring blog post. GSoC is a program in which Google funds students around the world to spend their...
View ArticleA Super Interconnect for a Supercomputer
It’s hard to truly understand the capabilities of modern-day supercomputers, their constituent technologies and deeply evolved software stacks. Once in a while, a technologist (or a marketing person)...
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The Cray® XC50™ and NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU – the Next Giant Leap in Compute...
Europe’s fastest supercomputer shoulders the challenges of the region’s toughest compute problems, from weather modeling to cosmology, and across a very broad range of other scientific domains. As the...
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Cray Swiss Clients Receive Innovation Award
As we highlighted at the recent SC16 conference, Cray’s clients do amazing things that affect ordinary people every day. So it was nice to see MeteoSwiss (Switzerland’s Federal Office of Meteorology...
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The Other P is Destroying the Ability to Achieve Performance Portability
An important consideration when moving to the next generation of multi/many-core systems is striving to create a refactored application that can run well on available systems. There are numerous...
View Article2017 Supercomputing Forecast: “Partly Cloudy”
Can cloud and supercomputing provide solutions better together than separately? That’s one question Barry Bolding, Cray’s senior vice president and chief strategy officer, addresses in an article on...
View ArticleBehind the Name: “SahasraT,” India’s Fastest Supercomputer
“SahasraT” holds a special place in Indian supercomputing: It is the country’s first petaflops supercomputer. The Cray® XC40™ system is housed at the Supercomputing Education and Research Center (SERC)...
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“Titan” Supercomputer Helps Scientists Analyze the Atoms in a Nanoparticle
Scientists used one of the world’s most powerful electron microscopes to map the precise location and chemical type of 23,000 atoms in an extremely small particle made of iron and platinum. The Cray...
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Inventions at Cray: Solving the Hard Problems
In the U.S., Feb. 11 is National Inventor’s Day, timed to coincide with the birthday of Thomas Edison. That’s reason enough to celebrate the inventors among us. The phrase “computer vector register...
View ArticleCray “Blue Waters” Supercomputer Tackles Gerrymandering
Redistricting — the process by which congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn — sounds like an unremarkable government chore. And, in theory, it should be. But, too often, it...
View ArticleForrester TechRadar™ Reports on Current State of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is an idea that’s been around for years – think Hal in “2001: A Space Odyssey” and C-3PO from “Star Wars.” But recent advances in big data, computing and the cloud are enabling...
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ExxonMobil Sets Record with Cray Supercomputer
ExxonMobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of...
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Cray CEO to Speak on the Convergence of Big Data and Supercomputing at...
Cray president and CEO Peter Ungaro will give a presentation on “The Convergence of Big Data and Supercomputing” at TechIgnite, an IEEE Computer Society conference exploring the trends, threats and...
View ArticleSupercomputing in Oil and Gas: Cray CEO Looks Forward
At the 2017 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conference, Cray CEO Peter Ungaro provided insight into current and future realities for HPC in oil and gas. His presentation, titled “Supercomputing: Yesterday,...
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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Australian 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 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...
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