Deloitte‘s advisory cyber risk services business and Cray have partnered to develop a subscription-based analytics service intended to help organizations discover, examine and respond to cybersecurity threats. The Cyber Reconnaissance and Analytics offering works to help government customers generate threat intelligence reports that include information on potential threat vectors, Deloitte said Wednesday. “Instead of reviewing every component of an agency’s internal enterprise, we are trying to […] More

Cray has secured an $11 million contract from Germany’s national meteorological service to update and expand the agency’s supercomputers and storage systems used at its weather prediction centers. The company will provide updates for the agency’s two XC30 supercomputers and two Sonexion storage systems in an effort to address weather forecast accuracy and other meteorological requirements, […] More

Cray has been awarded a $36 million contract to upgrade the high-performance computers and storage system at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The company will update the XC supercomputers to Cray XC40 systems and provide additional Sonexion 2000 Lustre storage and a 32-node system to the weather research center, Cray said Monday. The Intel […] More

Denmark’s Meteorological Institute has moved to run its climate and weather models on Cray’s supercomputers and storage system under a $6 million contract. Cray said Tuesday that DMI will install the Cray XC supercomputer and Sonexion 2000 storage system at the Icelandic Meteorological Office datacenter in Reykjavik, Iceland. The company is on schedule to deliver the […] More

Cray has received a potential $53 million contract to provide a storage system and a computer intended for large-scale data processing for Australia’s meteorology bureau. The company said Tuesday the agency will use the Cray Sonexion 2000 storage platform and Cray XC40 supercomputer to run weather models. Sonexion 2000 has a storage capacity of at least 12 petabytes and […] More

Cray has installed a petaflop supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science Supercomputing Education and Research Center in Bangalore to aid SERC research initiatives focused on high-performance computing. The company said Monday the Cray XC40 supercomputer, dubbed SahasraT, is equipped with Intel Xeon processors, Dragonfly topology, Aries interconnect technology, DataWarp optional platforms, cooling systems and NVIDIA Tesla graphic processing unit accelerators. […] More

Martin Homlish, formerly CEO of Omnicom Group’s AMP marketing agency, has joined the board of directors of Cray Inc. He will also serve on the board’s strategic technology assessment committee, Cray said Friday. Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray, said Homlish’s executive leadership and background will be valuable to the company as Cray continues […] More

Cray will provide the Defense Department with two XC40 supercomputers and two Sonexion storage systems to support the military’s High-Performance Computing Modernization Program under a $30 million contract. The company said Monday the U.S. Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at the John C. Stennis Space Center will house the Cray systems intended to support the production of coastal-ocean circulation and wave-model oceanography data. “[DoD HPCMP] remains […] More

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched its Frontier supercomputer designed to help researchers accelerate scientific discoveries. Frontier is the world’s first exascale computer composed of 74 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray EX cabinets that include 9,400 Advanced Micro Devices-powered nodes and 90 miles of interconnect cables, ORNL said Wednesday. “Exascale computing is […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have launched the world’s first exascale supercomputer designed to accelerate discoveries in areas such as disease diagnosis and prognosis, new materials, drug discovery and renewable energy. The HPE-built Frontier supercomputer reached a performance of 1.1 exaflops, making it the world’s fastest supercomputer based […] More

The Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has launched the initial phase of a new supercomputer, dubbed Perlmutter, designed to support U.S. scientific research and discoveries in areas such as artificial intelligence, data science, climate change, semiconductors, clean energy technologies and advanced computing. Perlmutter is […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has received a $35 million contract to construct a supercomputer designed to support the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s geoscience and meteorology studies including weather prediction activities.

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