Cray Launches Two New Supercomputers and Spotlights Breakthrough Technologies at SC06 Conference

Cray Launches Two New Supercomputers and Spotlights Breakthrough Technologies at SC06 Conference

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that it is debuting two new supercomputer systems at the international SC06 conference convening today through November 17 in Tampa, Florida. The company is exhibiting its high performance computing (HPC) technologies at the conference and is scheduled to participate in sessions that focus on petascale-level supercomputing, multicore processors, application scalability, interconnect capacity and other issues critical to HPC users and integral to Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision.

At the start of the SC06 conference, HPCwire announced that Cray has won its Editors’ Choice Award as Top HPC Vendor for 2006. The Editors’ Choice Award is determined by votes of an advisory group and alumni panel of recognized luminaries, contributors and editors associated with HPCwire, a leading source of news and information about the global HPC industry.

“SC06 offers us a great opportunity to highlight our new supercomputers and the breakthrough technologies behind Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision,” said Cray president and CEO Peter Ungaro. “On behalf of the innovative employees at Cray, we are proud to accept the HPCwire award as ‘Top HPC Vendor.’ It is a testament to the leadership-class supercomputing products we are bringing to the market and the breakthrough science and engineering that our customers are accomplishing with their Cray systems.”

The newly launched Cray XT4(TM) supercomputer (formerly known as “Hood”) and the Cray XMT(TM) massively multithreaded system (”Eldorado”) are both part of Cray’s Rainier program, the initial phase of the company’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision that will bring all Cray’s processing technologies together onto a common infrastructure. The Cray XT(TM) infrastructure provides a common user environment for login, compilation and running scripts, a common resource manager and work scheduler, a unique high-performance parallel file system and various intersystem interfaces.

Read the complete Press Release