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

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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

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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

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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