Cray gets graphic with big data

The A Register -

Supercomputer maker Cray has released an exotic appliance to help deep-pockets organizations find the relationships hidden in the torrent of information now being collected about, well, everything and everyone.

Sometimes you want to Map and Reduce that big data to sift it for some golden nuggets of information, and sometimes you want to take data about people or objects and see how they are connected to each other – or, better still, to see how they might be related, even though there is not a relationship expressed in your data. ... 続きを読む

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/01/cray_urika_big_data_appliance/

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Video: From FLOPS to Exaflops

inside HPC -
Supercomputers are often measured by their speed in FLOPS. In this video. Greg Newby from the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and Per Nyberg from Cray describe what FLOPS are and where the industry is headed on the road to Exaflops.
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http://insidehpc.com/2012/01/14/video-from-flops-to-exaflops/

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Crayのスーパーコンピュータが、京都大学学術情報メディアセンターに採用される

asashi.com -
Seattle, WA, Dec 1, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - スーパーコンピュータのグローバル大手、Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY)は、京都大学学術情報メディアセンター(ACCMS)に新しいスーパーコンピュータを提供する企業に選ばれたことを、本日発表しました。 Crayは、2012年に300テラフロップスのCray XE6スーパーコンピュータを提供し、2014年にはコードネーム「Cascade」の400テラフロップスの次世代Crayスーパーコンピュータを提供する予定です。... 続きを読む

http://www.asahi.com/business/pressrelease/JCN201112010002.html

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Cray Storage Solution to be Based on Xyratex Technology

HPCwire -
Cray’s new integrated High Performance Computing (HPC) data storage solutions to utilize Xyratex HPC Data Storage Architectures
HAVANT, UK – Nov. 29 – Xyratex Ltd (Nasdaq: XRTX), a leading provider of enterprise class data storage solutions and hard disk drive capital equipment, today announced that Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) is using Xyratex’ innovative HPC data storage architectures as the basis for the Cray Sonexion storage system – a new family of integrated Lustre High Performance Computing (HPC) data storage solutions. Xyratex will also be providing level-3 Lustre file system support services to Cray, which is recognized as a leading provider of HPC solutions to the top supercomputing and research facilities around the world. ... 続きを読む

 http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-11-29/cray_storage_solution_to_be_based_on_xyratex_technology.html

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