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Another Exciting Year
As we near the end of 2013, Cray is closing out one of the most transformative years in our long and proud history. In just this year alone, we successfully integrated two strategic acquisitions, won a...
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Infographic: The Cray Transformation
At Cray, we have been building high-performance computing systems for more than 40 years. Over that time, we have stood firm at the cutting edge of technology developments, providing our customers with...
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[Infographic] Specializing in Workflow-Driven Storage
Modeling efforts of staggering scale, simulations performed in high-definition resolutions and big data initiatives are all driving data-intensive research projects in contemporary high-performance...
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Cray’s Commitment to Lustre and OpenSFS
At Cray, we are a big user and investor in Lustre. Because Lustre is such a great fit for HPC, we deploy it with almost all of our systems. We even sell and deliver Lustre storage independent of Cray...
View ArticleBack to Warp Speed, Scotty!
Aren’t supercomputers already supposed to be moving at “warp” speed? Well, multi-petaflops anyway? With computing challenges getting more demanding and datasets getting more massive, it is not as easy...
View ArticleSupercomputing Matters: SC14 in Retrospect
SC14, the premier event in the HPC industry, has wound to a close in New Orleans. It’s interesting to look back and contemplate the validity of this year’s theme, “HPC Matters,” the success of the...
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Accelerate Your I/O with Cray DataWarp – A look back at what Cray did in the 80s
Cray recently introduced the DataWarp™ applications I/O accelerator. The National Nuclear Security Administration will deploy this technology at a large scale in the “Trinity” system next year. This is...
View ArticleOpenSFS and Cray Offer a New-Member Discount
Cray has been involved with Lustre® since its deployment with the groundbreaking Cray supercomputer “Red Storm,” at Sandia National Laboratories. Since then, a lot has happened throughout the Lustre...
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Algorithmic Trading: Faster Execution or Smarter Strategies?
The short answer is: You need both. Since the advent of the first high-frequency trading (HFT) firm, the quest for low-latency trading has been paramount. Strategies that were profitable before HFT are...
View ArticleDeepening Cray’s Involvement in Collaborative R&D and Codesign
Cray recently announced the birth of our new computing research organization for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the Cray EMEA Research Lab (CERL). Our investment in Europe is not new (the...
View ArticleControlling the Tide of Weather and Climate Data with Tiered Storage
There’s an old cliché that everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. While Cray can’t (yet) prevent droughts or cool off hot spells, we can help make the lives of weather...
View ArticleScratching an Itch: Mitigating HPC Scratch Bottlenecks
“I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. And scratch where it itches.” – Alice Roosevelt Longworth When one orchestrates HPC operations, scratch space often comes to the fore...
View ArticleTop 5 Blog Posts From 2015
Happy New Year! Check out some of the top blog posts from 2015: Why Do Better Forecasts Matter? Meteorologists have been striving to increase the accuracy of their work since the first weather...
View Article5 Predictions of Where Supercomputing is Heading in 2016
From new processor technologies to quantum computing, 2016 promises to be another exciting year for supercomputing. Here are five predictions as to how the industry will push ahead in 2016: The year...
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[Infographic] Risk Management & HPC
In the post-2008 credit crisis world, risk evaluation by financial institutions has steadily increased in demand and complexity. Where large banks once performed risk analysis on a monthly basis,...
View ArticleOptimizing 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...
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Cray Analytics and Alluxio – Wrangling Enterprise Storage
For business to not just survive — but to flourish — it’s become imperative to make decisions with near immediacy, continuously pivot strategy and tactics, and merge streams of inquiries into...
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