Cray Signs $250 Million Agreement With DARPA to Develop Breakthrough Adaptive Supercomputer

Cray Signs $250 Million Agreement With DARPA to Develop Breakthrough Adaptive Supercomputer

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) announced today that it has been awarded a $250 million agreement from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Under this agreement, Cray will develop a revolutionary new supercomputer based on the company’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision, a phased approach to hybrid computing that integrates a range of processing technologies into a single scalable platform.

“This is a great day for Cray and the worldwide supercomputing community,” said Peter Ungaro, Cray’s president and CEO. “The DARPA HPCS program is an important force that is shaping the future of HPC and the entire computer industry. With this Phase III award, DARPA has recognized Cray as a leading innovator with the technology, vision and expertise required to deliver world-class, revolutionary supercomputing systems.”

DARPA introduced the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program to facilitate development of the next generation of supercomputers for the national security, research, and industrial user communities. Cray’s HPCS development program, code-named “Cascade,” will produce a system with exceptional programmability, portability and robustness — capable of scaling to unprecedented levels of sustained performance on real applications.

Under the Cascade program, Cray will develop a new hybrid system architecture that combines multiple processor technologies, a new high-performance network and an innovative adaptive software layer into a single integrated system. Designed to efficiently scale to large numbers of processors, the system will maximize productivity and performance by automatically matching the most effective processor technology to each application.

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