Cray Inc. announces $3.5 million order for Red Storm product.Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) has announced that it has received another advance order for the company's upcoming product based on the Sandia "Red Storm" supercomputer. The order is valued at approximately $3.5 million. No further details were disclosed. "Red Storm" is a 40-TeraOps (40 trillion calculations per second) supercomputer Cray is scheduled to deliver this year to Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New under a $93 million Department of Energy contract. Cray announced plans to develop the Red Storm-based product in October 2003. Earlier this year, Cray announced advance orders for the product from the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC. ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville. and an unnamed Canadian customer. "The Red Storm-based product targets the need for highly scalable microprocessor-based supercomputers with extremely high bandwidth. It is designed to be more efficient and cost-effective for challenging problems and workloads than the clustered SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. systems available in the marketplace today," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Peter Ungaro, Cray's vice president of worldwide marketing and sales. "Red Storm takes the highly successful MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. systems of the past and updates it with the latest in advanced technology; customers are showing a lot of excitement about Cray bringing this architecture back to the forefront of supercomputing." |
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