APPLICATIONS

Cray Inc. today announced that it has received an order for a Cray X1 supercomputer system from GMRI. Under the contract terms, the Cray X1 system was recently installed at the NASA Ames Research Center facility in Moffett Field, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Cray X1 system will be used for a joint evaluation and development program aimed at porting NASA applications codes and testing their effectiveness on the system. "The Cray X1 system was acquired to support NASA 's Earth Sciences and Aeronautics Enterprise High End Computing partnership, which is fielding test beds in the most promising supercomputer architectures. This is a cooperative program that involves NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)," said Dr. Walt Brooks, chief of the NASA Ames Advanced Supercomputing Division. "The multi-center team will work together on porting codes and optimizing the CRAY system for NASA's most challenging engineering and science problems." "This important collaboration with GMRI and NASA is another important milestone in Cray's return to HPC leadership," said Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk. "The Cray X1 supercomputer is a highly balanced system that has already demonstrated unrivaled performance on very large, complex customer problems." "GMRI appreciates the opportunity to serve NASA and other agencies by supplying the complete line of Cray products on the GMRI NASA SEWP III (GWAC) contract," said GMRI Senior Vice President Lonnie Landers.