Mar. 18, 2009 (Hugin AS) --
Cray XT5m(TM) System Expands Market for Cray's Successful Petaflops
Technology
SEATTLE, WA and STUTTGART, GERMANY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/18/09 --
At a technical workshop co-hosted with the High Performance Computing
Center Stuttgart (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany,
global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced
the launch of the new Cray XT5m(TM) line of midrange supercomputers,
making the company's world-leading High Performance Computing (HPC)
technology available to a broader set of users. HLRS is the first
Cray XT5m customer.
"The new Cray XT5m product scales down Cray's successful high-end
Cray XT architecture to cover the entire supercomputer market segment
that starts at $500,000, expanding Cray's total addressable market in
the process," said Earl Joseph, IDC program vice president for HPC.
"Cray now has an opportunity to benefit from both a larger
addressable market and the projected growth in the complete
supercomputer segment."
The Cray XT5m system builds on the success of the Cray XT5(TM)
product, whose installations include the world's most powerful
supercomputer for open science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The
Cray XT5m supercomputer is a massively parallel processing (MPP)
system that delivers performance, efficiency and manageability
unrivaled in its price range with capabilities that previously were
only available to the world's largest research facilities. With the
introduction of the Cray XT5m series, more organizations and users
can benefit from superior Cray performance, quality and service,
while having the potential to scale to petaflops performance and
beyond.
"The Cray XT5m will broaden our customer base while extending the
Cray experience to new users and new market segments," said Cray CEO
and President Peter Ungaro. "Cray XT5m users can now benefit from the
proven technology of our larger Cray XT5 systems, offering unrivaled
performance and usability, but at lower price points. We are very
excited to be launching this system in Europe with HLRS as their
partnership with the automotive industry is an excellent example of
being able to leverage Cray supercomputers to a new set of customers
and applications."
As with all Cray XT(TM) systems, the Cray XT5m series can be upgraded
or expanded to take advantage of new technologies, such as
next-generation compute processors, including AMD's upcoming Istanbul
processors, I/O technologies and interconnects as they become
available. The new product is a seamless extension of the Cray XT5
product line and Cray XT5m customers can upgrade easily to a Cray XT5
supercomputer if needed.
The CrayXT5m system incorporates a version of the Cray SeaStar(TM)
network specially designed and optimized for systems with peak
performance of less than 100 teraflops. This provides Cray XT5m
systems with superior bandwidth, upgradeability and manageability at
price points similar to those of commodity clusters. Offered with up
to six cabinets, the Cray XT5m series features Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(TM) processors and a Cray SeaStar-based 2D torus
interconnect.
