Cray “Blue Waters” Supercomputer Tackles Gerrymandering
Redistricting — the process by which congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn — sounds like an unremarkable government chore. And, in theory, it should be. But, too often, it...
View ArticleWhy PGS Made the Move from Clusters to Supercomputers
PGS is a marine seismic company that acquires high-resolution seismic data for use in imaging and modeling the earth’s subsurface. When the company launched its Triton survey in the Gulf of Mexico in...
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ExxonMobil Sets Record with Cray Supercomputer
ExxonMobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of...
View ArticleSupercomputing in Oil and Gas: Cray CEO Looks Forward
At the 2017 Rice Oil & Gas HPC Conference, Cray CEO Peter Ungaro provided insight into current and future realities for HPC in oil and gas. His presentation, titled “Supercomputing: Yesterday,...
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Australian CIO Honored for Deployment of Cray System
Putting a 1.6 PF supercomputer into production on time and on budget with no interruptions to one of the world’s top meteorological agencies: amazing. And it brought well-earned kudos to Dr. Lesley...
View ArticleCray Centers of Excellence Help Advance HPC for All
In 2003 Cray signed a contract with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the installation of a Cray® X1™ supercomputer. This contract led to the creation of a program that continues to support Cray...
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SeisSpace and Parallel File Systems: What are You Using?
Here’s a few questions for all you SeisSpace® doodlebuggers out there. What parallel file system are you using for your secondary storage requirements? Have you ever thought about using a different...
View ArticleMarkley and Cray Offer Supercomputing as a Service
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. and Markley, a premier provider of datacenter space and cloud computing services, today announced a partnership to provide supercomputing-as-a-service solutions...
View ArticleCray CEO Discusses New Supercomputing as a Service
Cray’s president and chief executive officer, Peter Ungaro, offers insights into the company’s new supercomputing-as-a-service offering, in partnership with Markley. The first industry offering is the...
View ArticleCray System Helps Cut Jet Fuel Burn by 15 Percent
Consider the engine power required to get a plane off the ground. And then consider the engineering that goes into it. Brian Mitchell does. Every day. The senior principal engineer at GE Global...
View ArticleLeidos and Cray to Offer Multi-Level Security Solutions
Cray and Leidos, a global science and technology solutions leader, have signed a strategic alliance agreement to offer Multi-Level Security (MLS) solutions that include the Cray® CS™ series of cluster...
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Hail Powers Precision Medicine on the Urika-GX Platform
Hail is an open-source platform for analyzing variants in genomic data on top of Apache Spark™. It takes advantage of three key elements of Spark’s design: Scalability. Datasets are multi-terabyte and...
View ArticleBio-IT World 2017: Life Sciences Embrace Cloud
Hope you had a chance to attend the 16th annual, three-day Boston Bio-IT World Conference & Expo this year. Competitions included: Best Practices awards announcements and the Benjamin Franklin...
View ArticleData-Intensive Computing to Simulate the Brain
Understanding how the human brain works will take more than brains. Along with the planet’s smartest scientific minds, it will take never-before-achieved computing capabilities. The science and...
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How HPC Can Help Tap the Power of Ocean Waves
“What’s amazing about ocean wave energy is the enormity of the resource sitting there,” says Ashkan Rafiee. “Whoever solves this riddle will make a huge impact on the world.” Dr. Rafiee is the...
View ArticleLeading the Charge for Cancer Research
Cancer has proven itself a formidable opponent. But every opponent has a weakness — and Rick Stevens is working to identify it, exploit it… and, ultimately, bring the disease to its knees. How? With...
View ArticleDeep Learning at Scale
Cray is synonymous with large-scale computing. While this is by no means all we do, the research that leverages these large systems is interesting to examine as leading indicators of things to come in...
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