Cray to Explore Alternative Processor Technologies for Supercomputing

Cray to Explore Alternative Processor Technologies for Supercomputing

SEATTLE, WA and NEW ORLEANS, LA — (Marketwired) — 11/17/14 — At the 2014 Supercomputing Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the Company is evaluating alternative processor design points, including the potential use of 64-bit ARM® and other power and performance efficient processing technologies for its supercomputers and data analytics systems.As part of this effort, Cray was recently awarded a research and developmen

CORRECTION – Cray Inc.

CORRECTION – Cray Inc.

SEATTLE, WA and NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/16/14 — In the news release, "Cray Adds New Advanced Analytics Solution to Whom It May Concern: Its Big Data Product Portfolio," issued earlier today by Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY), please be advised that the headline should read "Cray Adds New Advanced Analytics Solution to Its Big Data Product Portfolio" rather than "Cray Adds New Advanced Analytics Solution to Whom It May Concern: Its Big Data Product Portfolio"

Cray Adds New Advanced Analytics Solution to Whom It May Concern: Its Big Data Product Portfolio

Cray Adds New Advanced Analytics Solution to Whom It May Concern: Its Big Data Product Portfolio

SEATTLE, WA and NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/16/14 — At the 2014 Strata + Hadoop World New York conference, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the launch of the Company–s new big data analytics product — the Cray® Urika-XA system. Pre-integrated with the Apache Hadoop® and Apache Spark frameworks, the Cray Urika-XA system provides customers with the benefits of a turnkey analytics appliance combined with a flexible, open platform that can be m

The University of Tsukuba in Japan Puts Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputer Into Production

The University of Tsukuba in Japan Puts Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputer Into Production

SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/19/13 — Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) at the University of Tsukuba in Japan has put a Cray® CS300 cluster supercomputer into production. The new Cray CS300 system has been combined with the University-s current Cray cluster supercomputer, and is providing researchers and scientists with a 1.1 petaflop system for computational science.Focused on promoting scientific discover

Cray Awarded $30 Million Contract to Expand the Cray XC30 Supercomputer at the High Performance Computing Center of University of Stuttgart

Cray Awarded $30 Million Contract to Expand the Cray XC30 Supercomputer at the High Performance Computing Center of University of Stuttgart

SEATTLE, WA and HEIDELBERG, GERMANY — (Marketwired) — 11/19/13 — Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the Company has signed a contract with the University of Stuttgart to expand the Cray® XC30 supercomputer, nicknamed "Hornet" at the University-s High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). When the expansion is complete, Hornet will have a peak performance of more than seven petaflops (quadrillion mathematical calculations per second) of

Cray Introduces Framework for Hadoop Enabling the Cray XC30 Supercomputer for Scientific Big Data

Cray Introduces Framework for Hadoop Enabling the Cray XC30 Supercomputer for Scientific Big Data

SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/18/13 — Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced a new "Big Data" framework that gives Cray customers the ability to more easily implement and run Apache Hadoop® on their Cray® XC30 supercomputers. Fusing the benefits of supercomputing and Big Data, the Cray Framework for Hadoop package improves the overall efficiency and performance for Cray XC30 customers deploying Hadoop in Scientific Big Data environments.The

Cray Adds NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU Accelerators to Its Complete Line of Supercomputing Systems

Cray Adds NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU Accelerators to Its Complete Line of Supercomputing Systems

SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 11/18/13 — Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the Cray® CS300 line of cluster supercomputers and the Cray® XC30 supercomputers are now available with the NVIDIA® Tesla® K40 GPU accelerators. Designed to solve the most demanding supercomputing challenges, the NVIDIA Tesla K40 provides 40 percent higher peak performance than its predecessor, the Tesla K20X GPU."The addition of the NVIDIA K40 GPUs furthers our