Cray Initiatives
Cray Inc. is a leading innovator in high performance computing technology. In addition to offering some of the fastest and most established
supercomputer systems in the world, Cray is actively involved in several projects which will shape the future of computational science.
The Cascade program is Cray's response to the High Productivity Computing Systems program sponsored by the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The HPCS Program was formed to foster development of the next generation of high productivity computing systems for both the national security and industrial user communities. The goals are for these systems to be more broadly applicable, easier to program and more resistant to failure than currently available high performance computing systems.
In 2004, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was selected by the Department of Energy's Office of Science to build the world's most powerful supercomputer. Cray's XT4 supercomputer, dubbed "Jaguar," is the cornerstone of the leadership class computing platform. Upgraded in 2007 to a performance capacity of 119 teraflops, Jaguar has already set a new performance record for the Weather and Research Forecast (WRF) meteorological modeling software. ORNL's goal is to provide its users with a petaflops-speed supercomputer in 2008.
Red Storm is a massively parallel processing (MPP) supercomputer with distributed memory, multiple instruction, and multiple data (MIMD)
architecture designed to provide exceptional computational power. Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security
Administration to address computing and simulation requirements, Cray and Sandia National Laboratories jointly produced the Red Storm supercomputer
system, and Cray developed the Cray XT3™ and Cray XT4™ supercomputer systems based on its architecture. Not only one of the world's fastest supercomputers, it offers ease of use, system balance, sustained performance, and reliability.
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