Cray to Deliver Mission-Critical Supercomputer to Japan Meteorological Agency
May 21 2018 - 9:00AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is implementing two
Cray® XC50™ supercomputers at its site in Kiyose, Tokyo. These
systems are expected to deliver a combined peak performance of more
than 18 petaflops. The supercomputers will support JMA in better
understanding, modeling and predicting the atmosphere, oceans and
typhoons, as well as in general weather forecasting.
The Cray XC50 supercomputers will be the central source of JMA’s
ongoing efforts to be vigilant toward potential threats from
natural disasters like typhoons, heavy rainfall, and other natural
phenomena.
Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, Ltd. is Cray’s partner in the
delivery of these XC50 supercomputers and Hitachi is the prime
contractor and system integrator on the project. The Cray XC50
systems, which boast Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, will also
have three Lustre® file systems each.
"Hitachi and Cray have delivered the supercomputer system which
provides JMA the most optimal resource to carry out their critical
task," said Yoshinori Hosoya, President of Government & Public
Corporation Information System Division, Hitachi, Ltd. “Hitachi
will continue to cooperate with Cray and make the maximum effort
possible to ensure that the agency remains as well prepared as
possible in weather forecasting and its many other
responsibilities.”
“Cray is excited to partner with Hitachi and to deliver these
supercomputers to JMA so the weather authority can better predict
and model the potentially devastating impacts of natural disasters
in Japan,” said Mamoru Nakano, president of Cray Japan. “Japan will
benefit by having these powerful Cray XC50 systems and, most
importantly, our technology supports the mission of our customers,
which, in this case, means saving lives.”
The Cray XC series of supercomputers is designed to handle the
most challenging workloads requiring the highest levels of
performance. Cray XC supercomputers incorporate the Aries™
high-performance network interconnect for low latency and scalable
global bandwidth; the HPC-optimized Cray Linux® Environment; the
Cray Programing Environment, consisting of powerful tools for
application developers; and the latest Intel processors. Cray XC
systems deliver on Cray’s commitment to performance supercomputing
with an architecture and tightly integrated software environment
that provides extreme scalability and sustained performance.
The new systems at JMA are currently installed and expected to
be put into production over the next few months.
For more information on Cray XC™ supercomputers, please
visit the Cray website at www.cray.com.
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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Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements
related to the performance of the systems delivered to JMA. These
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events or results include, but are not limited to, the risk that
the systems delivered to JMA do not perform as expected and such
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