Cray Awarded $26 Million Contract From the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program
November 07 2016 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP) has awarded the Company with a $26
million supercomputer contract for a Cray® XC40™ supercomputer and
three Cray Sonexion® storage systems.
The Cray systems will be located at the U.S. Army Engineer
Research and Development Center DoD Supercomputing Resource Center
(ERDC DSRC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As the research organization
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ERDC conducts R&D in
support of the soldier, military installations, and civil works
projects, as well as for other federal agencies, state and
municipal authorities, and with U.S. industry through innovative
work agreements. ERDC will use its Cray XC40 supercomputer and Cray
Sonexion storage systems in support of its mission to develop
innovative solutions for a safer, better world.
“It is imperative that ERDC DSRC continue to accelerate
technology development by providing researchers and scientists with
highly-advanced supercomputing technologies,” said Bobby Hunter,
Director of the ERDC DSRC. “Cray supercomputers have played a
significant role in the HPCMP and the ERDC DSRC, for several
decades. We are pleased that our partnership with Cray will
continue in support of our vision of using advanced computational
environments to solve DoD’s most critical mission challenges.”
“ERDC is one of the world’s premier engineering and scientific
research organizations, and we are honored to once again provide
its research teams with innovative supercomputing and storage
technologies through the DoD High Performance Computing
Modernization Program,” said Fred Kohout, senior vice president and
chief marketing officer at Cray. “Cray has enjoyed a long history
with the DoD and the ERDC, and we are excited that our long-term
collaboration supporting their important mission will
continue.”
Awarded by U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center in
Huntsville, Alabama, the contract is valued at approximately $26
million in product revenue. The system is expected to be installed
in mid-2017. The new system will include Intel® Xeon® E5 computing
cores, as well as Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors, formerly code-named
“Knights Landing”, and will be the first-ever production-ready
Knights Landing system for the HPCMP.
In operation for more than 20 years, the DoD HPCMP remains
focused on its mission to accelerate technology development and
transition into superior defense capabilities through the strategic
application of high performance computing, networking and
computational expertise. The HPCMP provides the people, expertise
and technologies that increase the productivity of the DoD’s
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation community. Cray has
worked closely with the HPCMP since its inception.
For more information on the Cray XC series of
supercomputers and Cray Sonexion storage systems, please
visit the Cray website at www.cray.com.
About the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization
ProgramThe HPCMP provides Department of Defense
supercomputing capabilities, high-speed network communications and
computational science expertise that enable DoD scientists and
engineers to conduct a wide-range of focused research, development
and test activities. This partnership puts advanced technology in
the hands of U.S. forces more quickly, less expensively, and with
greater certainty of success. Today, the HPCMP provides a complete
advanced computing environment for the DoD that includes unique
expertise in software development and system design, powerful high
performance computing systems, and a premier wide-area research
network. The HPCMP is managed on behalf of the Department of
Defense by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development
Center.
For more information, please visit the DoD HPCMP website at
www.hpc.mil.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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