APPLICATIONS

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that it received an order from an undisclosed European customer for a Cray X1(TM) supercomputer system, along with other technology and services. No further information was given. "This European order for the Cray X1 supercomputer follows previously announced orders from Spain's National Institute of Meteorology and Warsaw University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling," said Peter Ungaro, Cray's vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. "The Cray X1 product is gaining strong momentum internationally as our initial customers continue to report the unprecedented results and new scientific breakthroughs they have been able to achieve cost-effectively on this powerful system." In November, the company reported that Cray X1 systems were running challenging applications at customer sites up to 25 times faster than other U.S. supercomputers and ran a standard climate modeling application 50 percent faster per processor than Japan's Earth Simulator supercomputer.