Cray Inc. announces European supercomputer order.Cray (Cray, Inc., Seattle, WA, www.cray.com) A supercomputer manufacturer founded in 1972 as Cray Research, Inc., by Seymour Cray, a leading designer of large-scale computers at Control Data. In 1976, it shipped its first computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. Inc. (Nasdaq/NM:CRAY) has announced that it received an order from an undisclosed European customer for a Cray X1 supercomputer supercomputer, a state-of-the-art, extremely powerful computer capable of manipulating massive amounts of data in a relatively short time. Supercomputers are very expensive and are employed for specialized scientific and engineering applications that must handle very system, along with other technology and services. No further information was given. "This European order for the Cray X1 supercomputer follows previously announced orders from Spain's National Institute of Meteorology meteorology, branch of science that deals with the atmosphere of a planet, particularly that of the earth, the most important application of which is the analysis and prediction of weather. and Warsaw University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling
In November, the company reported that Cray X1 systems were running challenging applications at customer sites up to 25 times faster than other U.S. supercomputers and ran a standard climate modeling application 50 percent faster per processor than Japan's Earth Simulator Not to be confused with the videogame, SimEarth. The Earth Simulator (ES) was the fastest supercomputer in the world from 2002 to 2004. The system was developed for NASDA, JAERI, and JAMSTEC in 1997 for running global climate models to evaluate the effects of global supercomputer. |
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