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Cray Retains HPC Customer Via Opteron Strategy


http://www.cbronline.com/cbr_archive/550d05eb868c51e780256eac0032d13a

Supercomputer vendor Cray Inc has extended its relationship with the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center thanks to its recent strategy to focus on high performance computing systems based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc's Opteron processors.

Stuttgart, Germany-based Hochstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart, or HLRS, has placed an order with Seattle, Washington-based Cray for a 256-processor high-performance system based on AMD's Opterons, replacing a Cray T3E massively parallel supercomputer.

The 128-node, 256-processor system has a peak performance of one teraflop and was recently installed at the HLRS facility at the University of Stuttgart to serve as a university-wide resource available to faculty, staff and students, as well as industrial partners through the HWW public-private joint venture with Porsche AG and T-Systems GmbH.

Cray has been rapidly expanding its Opteron-based HPC activities this year. It acquired Opteron and Linux HPC specialist OctigaBay for $115m in February, re-branding its 12K systems as the Cray XD1.

It is also planning to release a commercial version of the Red Storm Opteron-based massively parallel Linux supercomputer it is developing for Sandia National Laboratories. That project, known as Strider, will produce more scalable HPC systems due for release later this year.