HPC
US Military Buys Three Cray Supercomputers
Under two unrelated US Department of Defense procurements, Cray has been awarded a total of $71 million to supply the Air Force and Army with a trio of HPC systems. …
Shasta
HPC
Intel To Take On OpenPower For Exascale Dominance With Aurora
As expected, Intel will be the prime contractor for the first exascale supercomputer in the United States, which Argonne National Laboratory expects to be operational and capable of sustained exaflops performance by the end of 2021. …
Compute
Shasta Sets Up Cray For Commercial HPC And Supercomputing Expansion
If you look at the very long history of Cray, the company has done a remarkable job expanding its market, not just participating in it. …
HPC
Interconnect Pioneer On Bridging HPC, Hyperscale Divide
The HPC market is opening up in a lot of different ways these days, and Cray is right smack dab in the middle of all of this change, embracing it. …
Compute
Cray Slingshots Back Into HPC Interconnects With Shasta Systems
While processors and now GPUs tend to get all of the glory when it comes to high performance computing, for the past three decades as distributed computing architectures became the norm in supercomputing, it has been the interconnects that made all the difference in how well – or poorly – these systems perform. …
Compute
Berkeley Lab First In Line for Cray “Shasta” Supercomputers
For the past five years, supercomputer maker Cray has been diligently at work not only creating a new system architecture that allows for a mix of different interconnects and compute for its future “Shasta” systems, but has also brought long-time Cray chief technology officer, Steve Scott, back into the company after two stints spent at Nvidia and Google to create a new interconnect, called “Slingshot,” that is the beating heart of the Shasta system and that signals a return of the Cray that we know and love. …