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in teoria si ......infatti new york e' 6 ore di differenza da noi ed e' sulla costa est..........forse 5 ore con ora legale.......allora come mai sono gia' usciti i dati?boh...............forse 2+2 non e' piu' uguale a 4 mah...........................
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.....bagnetto di sangue oggi infatti l'upgrade di ieri puzzava di marcio lontano un chilometro....cmq il primo quarto di CRAY è sempre il più difficile e questo non è da meno anzi peggio delle attese
la trimestrale non e' bella,,,
comunque quell'analista e' un gran ******** tanto per cambiare,,,
i risultati li sapeva,,,
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.....bagnetto di sangue oggi infatti l'upgrade di ieri puzzava di marcio lontano un chilometro....cmq il primo quarto di CRAY è sempre il più difficile e questo non è da meno anzi peggio delle attese
BEH DEVO DIRE CHE TUTTO SOMMATO
PENSAVO PEGGIO
DEL RESTO IO STO DACENDO ESPERIENZA
E NON AVEVO DATO PESO ALL'UPGRADE
CMQ ADESSO SO UN'ALTRA COSA IN PIU'
L'IMPORTANTE E' IMPARARE DAGLI ERRORI
E POI IO HO OTTICA FINO 2004 CON QUESTO TITOLO
E CREDO CHE COME HA DETTO L'AMICO MAURO
A FINE 2004 MI DARA' IL SUO BEL GAIN
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PRESS RELEASE: Cray Inc. Announces Advance Order for "Red Storm" Product from Pi [DHTLWJL]
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2004--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.
(Nasdaq NM: CRAY) today announced that the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
(PSC) has placed an advance order for the company's upcoming product based on
the Sandia "Red Storm" supercomputer.
This is the first disclosed customer for the new product line, which will be
launched later this year. Financial terms were not revealed.
Cray plans to deliver a "Red Storm" system in third-quarter 2004 to PSC's
Pittsburgh facility. PSC will provide scientists with early access to the
system's advanced massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and will also
collaborate with Cray on specialized applications and other advanced software
development.
"This advance order from PSC, one of the world's leading supercomputing sites,
is an important milestone for the 'Red Storm' product," said Cray Chairman and
CEO Jim Rottsolk. "It is hard evidence of the high interest level we are seeing
in this innovative architecture."
PSC Scientific Co-director and University of Pittsburgh Professor Ralph
Roskies stated, "This new architecture will make possible major scientific
breakthroughs by enabling important applications which couldn't scale well using
clusters with today's weaker inter-node interconnect technologies."
"We are very excited to, once again, work with Cray to advance the
state-of-the-art in high-end scientific computing," said Michael Levine, PSC's
scientific director from Carnegie Mellon University. "Together, we will deploy a
system of exquisite balance and prodigious capability."
PSC, in partnership with Cray, has consistently had early access to the most
powerful new computing resources designed to solve important scientific
problems.
Supercomputing veteran and PSC's Director of Special Projects Jim Kasdorf
added, "Cray's new product, made openly available to the U.S. research community
by PSC, will significantly increase the competitiveness of our nation's
scientists and high-performance computing industry."
"Red Storm" is a 40-TeraOps (40 trillion calculations per second)
supercomputer Cray is scheduled to deliver this year to Sandia National
Laboratories under a $93 million Department of Energy contract. Cray announced
plans to develop the Red Storm-based product in October 2003.
"The product targets the need for highly scalable microprocessor-based
supercomputers with high bandwidth. It is designed to be more efficient and
cost-effective for challenging problems and workloads than the clustered SMP
systems available in the marketplace today," according to Peter Ungaro, Cray's
vice president of worldwide marketing and sales. "Together with Sandia National
Laboratories, who partnered with Cray in designing the 'Red Storm' architecture,
we are very excited that PSC has selected 'Red Storm' for their very diverse and
demanding scientific supercomputing workload."
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2004--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.
(Nasdaq NM: CRAY) today announced that the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
(PSC) has placed an advance order for the company's upcoming product based on
the Sandia "Red Storm" supercomputer.
This is the first disclosed customer for the new product line, which will be
launched later this year. Financial terms were not revealed.
Cray plans to deliver a "Red Storm" system in third-quarter 2004 to PSC's
Pittsburgh facility. PSC will provide scientists with early access to the
system's advanced massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and will also
collaborate with Cray on specialized applications and other advanced software
development.
"This advance order from PSC, one of the world's leading supercomputing sites,
is an important milestone for the 'Red Storm' product," said Cray Chairman and
CEO Jim Rottsolk. "It is hard evidence of the high interest level we are seeing
in this innovative architecture."
PSC Scientific Co-director and University of Pittsburgh Professor Ralph
Roskies stated, "This new architecture will make possible major scientific
breakthroughs by enabling important applications which couldn't scale well using
clusters with today's weaker inter-node interconnect technologies."
"We are very excited to, once again, work with Cray to advance the
state-of-the-art in high-end scientific computing," said Michael Levine, PSC's
scientific director from Carnegie Mellon University. "Together, we will deploy a
system of exquisite balance and prodigious capability."
PSC, in partnership with Cray, has consistently had early access to the most
powerful new computing resources designed to solve important scientific
problems.
Supercomputing veteran and PSC's Director of Special Projects Jim Kasdorf
added, "Cray's new product, made openly available to the U.S. research community
by PSC, will significantly increase the competitiveness of our nation's
scientists and high-performance computing industry."
"Red Storm" is a 40-TeraOps (40 trillion calculations per second)
supercomputer Cray is scheduled to deliver this year to Sandia National
Laboratories under a $93 million Department of Energy contract. Cray announced
plans to develop the Red Storm-based product in October 2003.
"The product targets the need for highly scalable microprocessor-based
supercomputers with high bandwidth. It is designed to be more efficient and
cost-effective for challenging problems and workloads than the clustered SMP
systems available in the marketplace today," according to Peter Ungaro, Cray's
vice president of worldwide marketing and sales. "Together with Sandia National
Laboratories, who partnered with Cray in designing the 'Red Storm' architecture,
we are very excited that PSC has selected 'Red Storm' for their very diverse and
demanding scientific supercomputing workload."
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PRESS RELEASE: Cray Inc. Receives Order for Cray X1 Supercomputer from GMRI for [DHVHGGC]
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2004--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.
(Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it has received an order for a Cray X1(TM)
supercomputer system from GMRI. Under the contract terms, the Cray X1 system was
recently installed at the NASA Ames Research Center facility in Moffett Field,
California. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Cray X1 system will be used for a joint evaluation and development program
aimed at porting NASA applications codes and testing their effectiveness on the
system.
"The Cray X1 system was acquired to support NASA 's Earth Sciences and
Aeronautics Enterprise High End Computing partnership, which is fielding test
beds in the most promising supercomputer architectures. This is a cooperative
program that involves NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center,
and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)," said Dr. Walt Brooks, chief of the NASA
Ames Advanced Supercomputing Division. "The multi-center team will work together
on porting codes and optimizing the CRAY system for NASA's most challenging
engineering and science problems."
"This important collaboration with GMRI and NASA is another important
milestone in Cray's return to HPC leadership," said Cray Chairman and CEO Jim
Rottsolk. "The Cray X1 supercomputer is a highly balanced system that has
already demonstrated unrivaled performance on very large, complex customer
problems."
"GMRI appreciates the opportunity to serve NASA and other agencies by
supplying the complete line of Cray products on the GMRI NASA SEWP III (GWAC)
contract," said GMRI Senior Vice President Lonnie Landers.
About GMRI
Based in Manassas, Va., GMRI provides information technology solutions for
federal, corporate and education customers. GMRI specializes in enterprise mass
storage, supercomputing, e-commerce, web application development, network
operations, and information and infrastructure assurance. For more information
about GMRI, see www.gmri.com.
About NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center ("Ames") is located at Moffett Field, California, in
the heart of Silicon Valley. Ames was founded December 20, 1939 as an aircraft
research laboratory by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
and in 1958 became part of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Ames specializes in research geared toward creating new knowledge and new
technologies that span the spectrum of NASA interests.
About Cray Inc.
Cray's mission is to be the premier provider of supercomputing solutions for
its customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Go to
www.cray.com for more information about the company.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are certain
factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from those
anticipated by the statements above. These include Cray's ability to pass
acceptance tests and general economic and market conditions. For a discussion of
these and other risks, see Cray's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC
on March 12, 2004.
Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray X1 is a trademark, of Cray Inc. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2004--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.
(Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it has received an order for a Cray X1(TM)
supercomputer system from GMRI. Under the contract terms, the Cray X1 system was
recently installed at the NASA Ames Research Center facility in Moffett Field,
California. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The Cray X1 system will be used for a joint evaluation and development program
aimed at porting NASA applications codes and testing their effectiveness on the
system.
"The Cray X1 system was acquired to support NASA 's Earth Sciences and
Aeronautics Enterprise High End Computing partnership, which is fielding test
beds in the most promising supercomputer architectures. This is a cooperative
program that involves NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center,
and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)," said Dr. Walt Brooks, chief of the NASA
Ames Advanced Supercomputing Division. "The multi-center team will work together
on porting codes and optimizing the CRAY system for NASA's most challenging
engineering and science problems."
"This important collaboration with GMRI and NASA is another important
milestone in Cray's return to HPC leadership," said Cray Chairman and CEO Jim
Rottsolk. "The Cray X1 supercomputer is a highly balanced system that has
already demonstrated unrivaled performance on very large, complex customer
problems."
"GMRI appreciates the opportunity to serve NASA and other agencies by
supplying the complete line of Cray products on the GMRI NASA SEWP III (GWAC)
contract," said GMRI Senior Vice President Lonnie Landers.
About GMRI
Based in Manassas, Va., GMRI provides information technology solutions for
federal, corporate and education customers. GMRI specializes in enterprise mass
storage, supercomputing, e-commerce, web application development, network
operations, and information and infrastructure assurance. For more information
about GMRI, see www.gmri.com.
About NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center ("Ames") is located at Moffett Field, California, in
the heart of Silicon Valley. Ames was founded December 20, 1939 as an aircraft
research laboratory by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
and in 1958 became part of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Ames specializes in research geared toward creating new knowledge and new
technologies that span the spectrum of NASA interests.
About Cray Inc.
Cray's mission is to be the premier provider of supercomputing solutions for
its customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Go to
www.cray.com for more information about the company.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are certain
factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from those
anticipated by the statements above. These include Cray's ability to pass
acceptance tests and general economic and market conditions. For a discussion of
these and other risks, see Cray's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC
on March 12, 2004.
Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray X1 is a trademark, of Cray Inc. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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PJ: Piper: CRAY: Raising Rating Vector To Outperform From Market Perform Part 1 [DHWCBQJ]
KEY POINTS:
* Upgrading CRAY to Outperform from Market Perform. Our upgrade is catalyzed
by increased conviction that backlog has troughed in Q1, orders momentum is
building, and valuation has approached a bottom on a historic sales basis.
We are also increasingly comfortable that 1H04 EPS results will represent a
trough for this product cycle and believe now is an opportunistic time to
get in on Cray's next product cycle.
* We believe the backlog downtrend that began in Q103 is reversing to an
uptrend. We expect to see backlog rebound roughly 60% sequentially from Q1.
Backlog ended Q1 at $75 million and we are forecasting Q2 backlog at roughly
$120 million. We believe this will be the beginning of a multi-quarter
backlog upswing. Ultimately, an increase in backlog should put Cray into
positive book/bill territory through 2004 and set the stage for strong
growth in 2005. This should become particularly evident as the Company's new
product cycle is introduced later this year.
* The order drought is over. We believe orders momentum is building following
two consecutive soft quarters. Orders should come it at more than $50
million during Q2 compared to single-digit bookings quarters in Q104 and
Q403. We view these orders as pre-orders for Cray's new product line but we
believe the real order activity will begin to heat up once the Company's
products are in production mode and system performance is benchmarked.
* In our view, historic valuation range pegs shares of CRAY near a bottom. We
believe the best way to find a "floor" for Cray's stock is using a Price to
Sales multiple. This is particularly true as product cycles ebb and flow.
Historically, this measure bottoms out at just over 1x sales. Cray is
currently trading at about 1.4x sales. On a median basis, Cray has traded at
nearly 2 times sales and its not unusual to see it fetch a mid-product cycle
multiple in the 3x sales range. These historic reference points provide
further optimism that multiple expansion opportunities exist with solid
execution.
* Raising rating to Outperform from Market Perform. We believe order momentum
and backlog growth will be the drivers of the stock in the near term. While
we acknowledge that Q2 visibility is sketchy, we believe the negative
surprise or shock value will be minimal while the fundamental metrics
(orders and backlog) will clearly reverse from negative trends.
PJ: Piper: CRAY: Raising Rating Vector To Outperform From Market Perform Part 1 [DHWCBQJ]
KEY POINTS:
* Upgrading CRAY to Outperform from Market Perform. Our upgrade is catalyzed
by increased conviction that backlog has troughed in Q1, orders momentum is
building, and valuation has approached a bottom on a historic sales basis.
We are also increasingly comfortable that 1H04 EPS results will represent a
trough for this product cycle and believe now is an opportunistic time to
get in on Cray's next product cycle.
* We believe the backlog downtrend that began in Q103 is reversing to an
uptrend. We expect to see backlog rebound roughly 60% sequentially from Q1.
Backlog ended Q1 at $75 million and we are forecasting Q2 backlog at roughly
$120 million. We believe this will be the beginning of a multi-quarter
backlog upswing. Ultimately, an increase in backlog should put Cray into
positive book/bill territory through 2004 and set the stage for strong
growth in 2005. This should become particularly evident as the Company's new
product cycle is introduced later this year.
* The order drought is over. We believe orders momentum is building following
two consecutive soft quarters. Orders should come it at more than $50
million during Q2 compared to single-digit bookings quarters in Q104 and
Q403. We view these orders as pre-orders for Cray's new product line but we
believe the real order activity will begin to heat up once the Company's
products are in production mode and system performance is benchmarked.
* In our view, historic valuation range pegs shares of CRAY near a bottom. We
believe the best way to find a "floor" for Cray's stock is using a Price to
Sales multiple. This is particularly true as product cycles ebb and flow.
Historically, this measure bottoms out at just over 1x sales. Cray is
currently trading at about 1.4x sales. On a median basis, Cray has traded at
nearly 2 times sales and its not unusual to see it fetch a mid-product cycle
multiple in the 3x sales range. These historic reference points provide
further optimism that multiple expansion opportunities exist with solid
execution.
* Raising rating to Outperform from Market Perform. We believe order momentum
and backlog growth will be the drivers of the stock in the near term. While
we acknowledge that Q2 visibility is sketchy, we believe the negative
surprise or shock value will be minimal while the fundamental metrics
(orders and backlog) will clearly reverse from negative trends.
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PRESS RELEASE: Cray Inc. Signs $43.2 Million Supercomputer Contract with Korea M [DJJGSRS]
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.
(Nasdaq NM:CRAY) today announced that it has signed a five-year contract valued
at $43.2 million to supply the next-generation supercomputer to the Korea
Meteorological Administration (KMA), one of the world's premier weather
forecasting and research centers.
Cray and KMA also will jointly establish an Earth System Research Center aimed
at advancing atmospheric modeling in the East Asia Pacific region, the company
said.
On April 29, Cray reported that it had been selected for the competitive
contract award, subject to successful contract completion. The contract has now
been completed.
Cray was selected based on the superior performance of the Cray X1(TM)
supercomputer system and the Cray X1E(TM) planned successor system on KMA's
benchmark suite of weather prediction applications. Additional key criteria
included Cray's proposed storage area network (SAN), data management solution
and overall service capabilities. KMA and Korea's Public Procurement Services
reported that other bidders included Hewlett-Packard, IBM and NEC.
D. I. Lee, KMA's chief, Supercomputer Center Branch, said, "I would like to
express my satisfaction at the selection of the Cray system as our next
supercomputer, based on the real performance of KMA's operational applications.
The Cray system as a data processing engine will provide the basic
infrastructure to understand the Earth System and to make the information and
products to support sound decision-making for national policy and management.
KMA expects not only good performance from the Cray system, but also good
support from Cray as a company."
"The global weather-environmental community has extremely demanding
requirements for supercomputer capability and reliability, and KMA is one of the
premier sites in this community," said Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk. "This
win demonstrates that Cray is renewing its leadership in the
weather-environmental market by offering systems purpose-built for the most
challenging applications. We look forward to collaborating closely with KMA to
achieve their ambitious goals."
Cray's first-phase delivery to KMA is scheduled for later this year, with a
system based on the current Cray X1 technology. With a peak speed of more than
two teraflops (two trillion calculations per second), this will be one of the
largest numerical weather forecasting systems in the world. Cray will also
provide service and support, including applications support for KMA's research
and operational weather and climate models.
In 2005, Cray will provide a major upgrade to the successor Cray X1E
technology, which will enable still higher-resolution weather models and larger
ensemble forecasts.
The new Cray supercomputing solution will support KMA's operational mission
and help advance KMA's leadership status among numerical weather prediction
centers worldwide. The enhanced computational capabilities will allow KMA to
improve the forecast accuracy of very short-range severe weather phenomena, and
the prediction of long-term monsoon and climate-change events.
The socio-economic benefits of the improved forecasting ability could be
substantial, Cray officials said. For example, in September 2002 typhoon Rusa
hit the South Korean peninsula, causing more than 50 deaths and as much as $4
billion in damages while severely impairing the country's infrastructure.
About the Korea Meteorological Administration
As a government administrative organization, the Korea Meteorological
Administration (KMA) is responsible for improving public welfare through the
prevention and mitigation of meteorological disasters, as well as the provision
of meteorological support in industrial activities. KMA provides meteorological
services to the public and actively carries out programs for research and
international cooperation.
PRESS RELEASE: Cray Inc. Signs $43.2 Million Supercomputer Contract with Korea M [DJJGSRS]
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2004--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.
(Nasdaq NM:CRAY) today announced that it has signed a five-year contract valued
at $43.2 million to supply the next-generation supercomputer to the Korea
Meteorological Administration (KMA), one of the world's premier weather
forecasting and research centers.
Cray and KMA also will jointly establish an Earth System Research Center aimed
at advancing atmospheric modeling in the East Asia Pacific region, the company
said.
On April 29, Cray reported that it had been selected for the competitive
contract award, subject to successful contract completion. The contract has now
been completed.
Cray was selected based on the superior performance of the Cray X1(TM)
supercomputer system and the Cray X1E(TM) planned successor system on KMA's
benchmark suite of weather prediction applications. Additional key criteria
included Cray's proposed storage area network (SAN), data management solution
and overall service capabilities. KMA and Korea's Public Procurement Services
reported that other bidders included Hewlett-Packard, IBM and NEC.
D. I. Lee, KMA's chief, Supercomputer Center Branch, said, "I would like to
express my satisfaction at the selection of the Cray system as our next
supercomputer, based on the real performance of KMA's operational applications.
The Cray system as a data processing engine will provide the basic
infrastructure to understand the Earth System and to make the information and
products to support sound decision-making for national policy and management.
KMA expects not only good performance from the Cray system, but also good
support from Cray as a company."
"The global weather-environmental community has extremely demanding
requirements for supercomputer capability and reliability, and KMA is one of the
premier sites in this community," said Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk. "This
win demonstrates that Cray is renewing its leadership in the
weather-environmental market by offering systems purpose-built for the most
challenging applications. We look forward to collaborating closely with KMA to
achieve their ambitious goals."
Cray's first-phase delivery to KMA is scheduled for later this year, with a
system based on the current Cray X1 technology. With a peak speed of more than
two teraflops (two trillion calculations per second), this will be one of the
largest numerical weather forecasting systems in the world. Cray will also
provide service and support, including applications support for KMA's research
and operational weather and climate models.
In 2005, Cray will provide a major upgrade to the successor Cray X1E
technology, which will enable still higher-resolution weather models and larger
ensemble forecasts.
The new Cray supercomputing solution will support KMA's operational mission
and help advance KMA's leadership status among numerical weather prediction
centers worldwide. The enhanced computational capabilities will allow KMA to
improve the forecast accuracy of very short-range severe weather phenomena, and
the prediction of long-term monsoon and climate-change events.
The socio-economic benefits of the improved forecasting ability could be
substantial, Cray officials said. For example, in September 2002 typhoon Rusa
hit the South Korean peninsula, causing more than 50 deaths and as much as $4
billion in damages while severely impairing the country's infrastructure.
About the Korea Meteorological Administration
As a government administrative organization, the Korea Meteorological
Administration (KMA) is responsible for improving public welfare through the
prevention and mitigation of meteorological disasters, as well as the provision
of meteorological support in industrial activities. KMA provides meteorological
services to the public and actively carries out programs for research and
international cooperation.
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siamo quasi a 8$...sale lentamente,.,
e il cassetto va,.,,,, non lo mollero tanto facilmente
siamo quasi a 8$...sale lentamente,.,
e il cassetto va,.,,,, non lo mollero tanto facilmente
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Hinditron Secures First Order in India for New Cray XD1 Supercomputer, from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Cray Inc. Announces $9.7 Million 'Red Storm' Order from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Hinditron Secures First Order in India for New Cray XD1 Supercomputer, from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Cray Inc. Announces $9.7 Million 'Red Storm' Order from Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
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Cray Inc. Begins Shipping Cray XT3 Massively Parallel Supercomputer Based on Sandia ''Red Storm'' Design Related Stocks
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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2004--
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (CRAY - news) today reported that it has begun shipping the Cray XT3(TM) supercomputer, an industry standard massively parallel processing (MPP) system that strongly advances the record-setting scalability and sustained application performance of the renowned Cray T3D(TM) and Cray T3E(TM) systems. U.S. list pricing for the Cray XT3 supercomputer begins at about $2 million.
The first shipment was to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia). The Sandia system was developed and delivered under contract for the Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASC) program. Other initial customers include the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Cray XT3 supercomputer's architecture, co-designed with Sandia as part of the $90 million "Red Storm" system contract, delivers superior scalable application performance and value across a range of configurations from 200 to 30,000 processors, with peak performance of up to 144 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second).
Cray has shipped a 10-teraflop portion of the "Red Storm" system to Sandia. When fully installed, "Red Storm" will have over 40 peak teraflops of performance, more than 11,000 AMD Opteron(TM) processors, and 240 terabytes of disk storage. The system is expected to be at least seven times more powerful than Sandia's current ASCI Red supercomputer on real-world applications.
That is just the beginning. "Today's Cray XT3 is the first in a series of increasingly powerful scalable Cray products that exploit the Red Storm architecture. The architecture will allow capability to be increased with a simple processor upgrade," said Sandia's Bill Camp, Director of Computers, Computation, Information and Mathematics.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which selected the Cray XT3 system for their National Leadership Class Facility computing initiative, is slated to receive a 20-teraflop Cray XT3 supercomputer, along with a 20-teraflop Cray X1E(TM) vector MPP supercomputer, in 2005. In May 2004, the DOE chose ORNL "to lead a partnership with a goal of building the world's most powerful supercomputer by 2007," according to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. ORNL plans to expand to a 100-teraflop Cray system at Oak Ridge in 2006, and to move in 2007 to a system with over 250 peak teraflops and up to 100 sustained teraflops on real-world problems.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has signed a contract for a 10-teraflop Cray XT3 supercomputer that can be expanded over time. In a joint statement, PSC scientific directors Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies said, "We are very enthusiastic about making this new and powerful scientific instrument available to National Science Foundation researchers. Remotely using part of the XT3 system which will soon be shipped from Cray to PSC, we have successfully run the Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) from the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, led by Kelvin Droegemeier. Our ability to execute this full application, a comprehensive regional to storm-scale atmospheric modeling/prediction system, as well as our successes with segments of other simulation programs, strongly indicates that it will be a highly productive computational resource."
According to Rich Partridge, Enterprise Systems analyst with D.H. Brown Associates, "Thanks to its blend of high performance computation and robust communication, Cray's T3E was the leading MPP system for years. The Cray XT3 becomes the logical successor. Employing updated processor and interconnect technology, Cray again offers a highly scalable MPP design, with a balance of computation and communication capabilities that promises to deliver superior performance on real-world problems."
"The Cray XT3 supercomputer, designed in partnership with Sandia, advances the achievements of the Cray T3D and Cray T3E, widely recognized as the gold standard for MPP systems, as well as the ASCI Red supercomputer. The Cray XT3 sets a new standard for the efficient scalability and reliability of standard microprocessor-based system designs," said Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president for sales, marketing and services. "On real problems, the Cray XT3 system's balanced design will enable it to outperform large-scale clusters with substantially greater theoretical peak or Linpack (Top500) speed."
The Cray XT3 Supercomputer - Scalable By Design
The Cray XT3 supercomputer's high-bandwidth, low-latency design -- purpose-built for high performance computing (HPC) applications -- delivers a much higher percentage of peak performance in practice than HPC clusters and other alternatives.
The Cray XT3 supercomputer uses Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HyperTransport(TM) technology and Opteron(TM) processors connected via a Cray low-latency, high-bandwidth, three-dimensional torus interconnect network.
System highlights:
-- A 3D torus direct connected processor (DCP) architecture tightly links processors to nearest neighbors.
-- A highly scalable compute system incorporates high performance AMD Opteron(TM) processors, high speed memory, an MPP optimized operating system, and a standards-based programming environment to deliver unmatched sustained application performance in configurations from 200 to 30,000 processors.
-- A high bandwidth, low latency interconnect with embedded communications processing and routing offers total interconnect bandwidth of more than 100 terabytes/second.
-- High speed, global I/O is scalable to over 100 gigabytes/second of I/O (input/output) bandwidth and hundreds of terabytes of parallel disk storage.
-- A tightly integrated management and operating system provides high reliability and is designed to run full-system applications to completion.
About Cray Inc.
As the global leader in high performance computing (HPC), Cray provides innovative supercomputing systems that enable scientists and engineers in government, industry and academia to meet both existing and future computational challenges. Building on years of experience in designing, developing, marketing and servicing the world's most advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of HPC systems that deliver unrivaled sustained performance on a wide range of applications. Go to www.cray.com for more information.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are certain factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from those anticipated by the statements above. These include the technical challenges of developing high performance computing systems, reliance on third-party suppliers, government support of supercomputer systems research and development and purchases, the passing of acceptance tests, procurement proposals based on theoretical peak speed, the successful porting of application programs to Cray systems, Cray's ability to keep up with rapid technological change and general economic and market conditions. For a discussion of these and other risks, see "Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC.
Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray XT3, Cray X1E, Cray T3D and Cray T3E are trademarks, of Cray Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners
CRAY
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2004--
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (CRAY - news) today reported that it has begun shipping the Cray XT3(TM) supercomputer, an industry standard massively parallel processing (MPP) system that strongly advances the record-setting scalability and sustained application performance of the renowned Cray T3D(TM) and Cray T3E(TM) systems. U.S. list pricing for the Cray XT3 supercomputer begins at about $2 million.
The first shipment was to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia). The Sandia system was developed and delivered under contract for the Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASC) program. Other initial customers include the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Cray XT3 supercomputer's architecture, co-designed with Sandia as part of the $90 million "Red Storm" system contract, delivers superior scalable application performance and value across a range of configurations from 200 to 30,000 processors, with peak performance of up to 144 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second).
Cray has shipped a 10-teraflop portion of the "Red Storm" system to Sandia. When fully installed, "Red Storm" will have over 40 peak teraflops of performance, more than 11,000 AMD Opteron(TM) processors, and 240 terabytes of disk storage. The system is expected to be at least seven times more powerful than Sandia's current ASCI Red supercomputer on real-world applications.
That is just the beginning. "Today's Cray XT3 is the first in a series of increasingly powerful scalable Cray products that exploit the Red Storm architecture. The architecture will allow capability to be increased with a simple processor upgrade," said Sandia's Bill Camp, Director of Computers, Computation, Information and Mathematics.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which selected the Cray XT3 system for their National Leadership Class Facility computing initiative, is slated to receive a 20-teraflop Cray XT3 supercomputer, along with a 20-teraflop Cray X1E(TM) vector MPP supercomputer, in 2005. In May 2004, the DOE chose ORNL "to lead a partnership with a goal of building the world's most powerful supercomputer by 2007," according to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. ORNL plans to expand to a 100-teraflop Cray system at Oak Ridge in 2006, and to move in 2007 to a system with over 250 peak teraflops and up to 100 sustained teraflops on real-world problems.
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has signed a contract for a 10-teraflop Cray XT3 supercomputer that can be expanded over time. In a joint statement, PSC scientific directors Michael Levine and Ralph Roskies said, "We are very enthusiastic about making this new and powerful scientific instrument available to National Science Foundation researchers. Remotely using part of the XT3 system which will soon be shipped from Cray to PSC, we have successfully run the Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) from the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, led by Kelvin Droegemeier. Our ability to execute this full application, a comprehensive regional to storm-scale atmospheric modeling/prediction system, as well as our successes with segments of other simulation programs, strongly indicates that it will be a highly productive computational resource."
According to Rich Partridge, Enterprise Systems analyst with D.H. Brown Associates, "Thanks to its blend of high performance computation and robust communication, Cray's T3E was the leading MPP system for years. The Cray XT3 becomes the logical successor. Employing updated processor and interconnect technology, Cray again offers a highly scalable MPP design, with a balance of computation and communication capabilities that promises to deliver superior performance on real-world problems."
"The Cray XT3 supercomputer, designed in partnership with Sandia, advances the achievements of the Cray T3D and Cray T3E, widely recognized as the gold standard for MPP systems, as well as the ASCI Red supercomputer. The Cray XT3 sets a new standard for the efficient scalability and reliability of standard microprocessor-based system designs," said Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president for sales, marketing and services. "On real problems, the Cray XT3 system's balanced design will enable it to outperform large-scale clusters with substantially greater theoretical peak or Linpack (Top500) speed."
The Cray XT3 Supercomputer - Scalable By Design
The Cray XT3 supercomputer's high-bandwidth, low-latency design -- purpose-built for high performance computing (HPC) applications -- delivers a much higher percentage of peak performance in practice than HPC clusters and other alternatives.
The Cray XT3 supercomputer uses Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HyperTransport(TM) technology and Opteron(TM) processors connected via a Cray low-latency, high-bandwidth, three-dimensional torus interconnect network.
System highlights:
-- A 3D torus direct connected processor (DCP) architecture tightly links processors to nearest neighbors.
-- A highly scalable compute system incorporates high performance AMD Opteron(TM) processors, high speed memory, an MPP optimized operating system, and a standards-based programming environment to deliver unmatched sustained application performance in configurations from 200 to 30,000 processors.
-- A high bandwidth, low latency interconnect with embedded communications processing and routing offers total interconnect bandwidth of more than 100 terabytes/second.
-- High speed, global I/O is scalable to over 100 gigabytes/second of I/O (input/output) bandwidth and hundreds of terabytes of parallel disk storage.
-- A tightly integrated management and operating system provides high reliability and is designed to run full-system applications to completion.
About Cray Inc.
As the global leader in high performance computing (HPC), Cray provides innovative supercomputing systems that enable scientists and engineers in government, industry and academia to meet both existing and future computational challenges. Building on years of experience in designing, developing, marketing and servicing the world's most advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of HPC systems that deliver unrivaled sustained performance on a wide range of applications. Go to www.cray.com for more information.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements. There are certain factors that could cause Cray's execution plans to differ materially from those anticipated by the statements above. These include the technical challenges of developing high performance computing systems, reliance on third-party suppliers, government support of supercomputer systems research and development and purchases, the passing of acceptance tests, procurement proposals based on theoretical peak speed, the successful porting of application programs to Cray systems, Cray's ability to keep up with rapid technological change and general economic and market conditions. For a discussion of these and other risks, see "Factors That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC.
Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray XT3, Cray X1E, Cray T3D and Cray T3E are trademarks, of Cray Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners
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Cray Tapped to Deliver One of World's Most Powerful Supercomputers for use by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2005--
Cray XT3 System Will More Than Triple The Computing Power
ERDC Can Apply To Military And Civil Engineering Projects
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it has won an order to deliver one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to the computing center for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This order is part of a multi-order award with an aggregate value of over $23 million that Cray has received from the DoD HPC Modernization Program.
In mid-2005, the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, will begin operating a Cray XT3(TM) supercomputer with over 4,000 processors and a peak performance of more than 21 trillion calculations a second (teraflops). The addition will more than triple the capability of the currently installed ERDC Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) systems, which include a 64-processor Cray X1(TM) vector supercomputer and a large Cray T3E supercomputer. The new system, one of the largest built by Cray, will secure the ERDC MSRC's position as one of the most capable high performance computing centers in the world.
The ERDC supercomputing center is a vital link in the day-to-day chain that provides critical support to the nation's warfighters. The Center's capabilities are available to users around the world 24/7, and enable the Army and the Corps of Engineers to carry out complex numerical simulations that support both military and civil engineering missions.
Although the supercomputing center is housed at ERDC, its focus is not only on the Army and Corps of Engineers missions. The MSRC supports DoD-wide research and development programs that utilize supercomputing capabilities for the Secretary of Defense, including "Challenge Projects," some of the most important computational projects in the Department. The new ERDC system will be the largest system in the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) and one of the largest systems anywhere in the world.
"This is a huge boost in computational capability for the Army and the Department of Defense," said Jeffery P. Holland, Director of the ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, which hosts the MSRC. "These systems form the computational backbone of the support we provide to the Defense mission. This new enhancement will enable us to continue to be a leader in providing computational capabilities and expertise for our DoD users worldwide."
"The Department of Defense computational science community will need over 875 HABU equivalents of computing capacity by 2010. The Cray XT3 being installed at the ERDC MSRC, this year, is an important step toward meeting that requirement," said Cray Henry, Director of the DoD HPC Modernization Program (one HABU equivalent represents the equivalent performance of the weighted DoD benchmark suite on a 1024 CPU IBM power 3 system). "This system will support our most demanding computational research and engineering teams working on a variety of key technologies such as simulation of tactical aircraft performance, simulating high energy laser performance and simulation of armor performance. This system will provide DoD scientists and engineers with the leading computational capability they need."
"Our users will be able to advance their critical research on one of the world's most powerful and efficient supercomputers," said John West, director of the ERDC Major Shared Resource Center. "The new Cray XT3 is a highly innovative supercomputer built to handle the most demanding scientific and engineering applications. We look forward to continuing our beneficial relationship with Cray."
"Cray is excited that ERDC is making our new Cray XT3 technology available to their broad user base in support of ERDC's important national mission. The Cray XT3 supercomputer sets a new standard for the real-world performance, efficient scalability and reliability of system designs using standard microprocessors. We are fully committed to helping ERDC and the U.S. Department of Defense realize their ambitious goals for this new system," said Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president for sales, marketing and service.
The Cray XT3 supercomputer uses AMD Opteron(TM) processors connected via an innovative, high-speed internal network and is designed for very efficient, reliable operation at large scale. The system is based on the Red Storm architecture co-developed by Cray and Sandia National Laboratories.
Cray Tapped to Deliver One of World's Most Powerful Supercomputers for use by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2005--
Cray XT3 System Will More Than Triple The Computing Power
ERDC Can Apply To Military And Civil Engineering Projects
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that it has won an order to deliver one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to the computing center for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This order is part of a multi-order award with an aggregate value of over $23 million that Cray has received from the DoD HPC Modernization Program.
In mid-2005, the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, will begin operating a Cray XT3(TM) supercomputer with over 4,000 processors and a peak performance of more than 21 trillion calculations a second (teraflops). The addition will more than triple the capability of the currently installed ERDC Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) systems, which include a 64-processor Cray X1(TM) vector supercomputer and a large Cray T3E supercomputer. The new system, one of the largest built by Cray, will secure the ERDC MSRC's position as one of the most capable high performance computing centers in the world.
The ERDC supercomputing center is a vital link in the day-to-day chain that provides critical support to the nation's warfighters. The Center's capabilities are available to users around the world 24/7, and enable the Army and the Corps of Engineers to carry out complex numerical simulations that support both military and civil engineering missions.
Although the supercomputing center is housed at ERDC, its focus is not only on the Army and Corps of Engineers missions. The MSRC supports DoD-wide research and development programs that utilize supercomputing capabilities for the Secretary of Defense, including "Challenge Projects," some of the most important computational projects in the Department. The new ERDC system will be the largest system in the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) and one of the largest systems anywhere in the world.
"This is a huge boost in computational capability for the Army and the Department of Defense," said Jeffery P. Holland, Director of the ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, which hosts the MSRC. "These systems form the computational backbone of the support we provide to the Defense mission. This new enhancement will enable us to continue to be a leader in providing computational capabilities and expertise for our DoD users worldwide."
"The Department of Defense computational science community will need over 875 HABU equivalents of computing capacity by 2010. The Cray XT3 being installed at the ERDC MSRC, this year, is an important step toward meeting that requirement," said Cray Henry, Director of the DoD HPC Modernization Program (one HABU equivalent represents the equivalent performance of the weighted DoD benchmark suite on a 1024 CPU IBM power 3 system). "This system will support our most demanding computational research and engineering teams working on a variety of key technologies such as simulation of tactical aircraft performance, simulating high energy laser performance and simulation of armor performance. This system will provide DoD scientists and engineers with the leading computational capability they need."
"Our users will be able to advance their critical research on one of the world's most powerful and efficient supercomputers," said John West, director of the ERDC Major Shared Resource Center. "The new Cray XT3 is a highly innovative supercomputer built to handle the most demanding scientific and engineering applications. We look forward to continuing our beneficial relationship with Cray."
"Cray is excited that ERDC is making our new Cray XT3 technology available to their broad user base in support of ERDC's important national mission. The Cray XT3 supercomputer sets a new standard for the real-world performance, efficient scalability and reliability of system designs using standard microprocessors. We are fully committed to helping ERDC and the U.S. Department of Defense realize their ambitious goals for this new system," said Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president for sales, marketing and service.
The Cray XT3 supercomputer uses AMD Opteron(TM) processors connected via an innovative, high-speed internal network and is designed for very efficient, reliable operation at large scale. The system is based on the Red Storm architecture co-developed by Cray and Sandia National Laboratories.