Cray Signs Contract to Install Cascade Supercomputer and Sonexion Storage System at the Pawsey Centre
July 24 2012 - 6:00AM
Marketwired
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) announced
today it signed a contract with the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to provide the Pawsey
Centre in Perth, Australia with a next-generation Cray
supercomputer code-named "Cascade" and a next-generation Cray
Sonexion storage system. Consisting of products and services, the
multi-year, multi-phase contract is valued at more than $21 million
USD.
Located in Kensington, Western Australia, the Pawsey Centre will
use Cray's Cascade supercomputer and Sonexion storage system to
support the data-intensive science that will be carried out using
the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and
Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescopes. The Cray systems
will also be used by researchers and scientists at the Pawsey
Centre to support additional research areas including geosciences,
nanotechnology and biosciences. The Pawsey Centre is owned by CSIRO
and managed by iVEC.
"Our organisation is focused on establishing world-class
supercomputing facilities and expertise that will allow for the
exploration of new paradigms of research," said Paul Nichols, iVEC
Executive Director. "Providing our users at the Pawsey Centre with
Cray's next-generation Cascade and Sonexion storage systems
reinforces our mission and represents a significant contribution to
the future of Australian research."
"We are honored to be working with iVEC and CSIRO to provide the
Pawsey Centre with the most advanced high performance computing
technologies our company has to offer -- the next-generation of our
Sonexion storage system and our upcoming Cascade supercomputer,"
said Andrew Wyatt, vice president, Cray Asia Pacific. "The science
being undertaken at the Pawsey Centre will require significant
supercomputing resources, and we are excited to provide their users
with the latest and most innovative Cray systems that are uniquely
designed to meet the needs of these demanding challenges."
Cray's Cascade supercomputer, which is expected to be widely
available in 2013, is the next step in Cray's Adaptive
Supercomputing vision. The system will feature major advancements
to the Cray Linux Environment, Cray's HPC-optimized programming
environment, and the next-generation Aries interconnect chipset.
Cascade will also feature support for Intel® Xeon® processors -- a
first for Cray's high-end systems -- and the Cascade system at the
Pawsey Centre is expected to include the Intel® Xeon® Phi™
coprocessors based on Intel's Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC)
architecture. The Cascade supercomputer is in part made possible by
Cray's participation in the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency's (DARPA) High Productivity Computing Systems program.
The Cray Sonexion storage system brings together an integrated
file system, software and storage offering that has been designed
specifically for a wide range of HPC workloads, providing users
with an integrated, scalable Lustre solution that is easy to
install and maintain. Cray's Sonexion storage system combines
powerful servers, the latest Lustre parallel file system and
efficient management software into a modular and scalable storage
product that is tested at scale, and supported as a complete
solution by Cray.
Initial deliveries of the Cascade supercomputer and Sonexion
storage system to the Pawsey Centre will begin in 2013 and are
expected to be completed in 2014.
About iVEC iVEC is an unincorporated joint
venture of CSIRO and the four public Western Australian
universities: Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch
University and The University of Western Australia. It was
established in 2001 to foster and promote scientific and
technological innovation through the provision of supercomputing
and eResearch services to the research community, commercial
organisations and government agencies. In 2009 iVEC was charged
with establishing and operating the $80 million Pawsey Centre by
the Australian government. iVEC has a 5 year agreement with the
Western Australia State Government to fund staff to manage the
Pawsey infrastructure and provide uptake services for the user
community.
About the Pawsey Centre The Pawsey Centre
(named after Dr. Joseph Pawsey, an Australian pioneer in the field
of radio astronomy) was officially launched by Senator Kim Carr,
Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research on
27 August 2009. The Centre is located adjoining CSIRO's Australian
Resources Research Centre in Technology Park, Kensington, Western
Australia. As a supercomputing facility, it is expected to be among
the leading echelon of supercomputers in the world at the time of
its final commissioning. The Pawsey Centre is owned by the CSIRO
and managed by iVEC.
About Cray Inc. As a global leader in
supercomputing, Cray provides highly advanced supercomputers and
world-class services and support to government, industry and
academia. Cray technology is designed to enable scientists and
engineers to achieve remarkable breakthroughs by accelerating
performance, improving efficiency and extending the capabilities of
their most demanding applications. Cray's Adaptive Supercomputing
vision is focused on delivering innovative next-generation products
that integrate diverse processing technologies into a unified
architecture, allowing customers to surpass today's limitations and
meeting the market's continued demand for realized performance. Go
to www.cray.com for more information.
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21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements
related to Cray's ability to deliver the system required by the
Pawsey Centre when required and that meets the Pawsey Centre's
needs, the planned availability of the Cray Cascade system. These
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the system required by the Pawsey Centre is not delivered in a
timely fashion or does not perform as expected, the risk that Cray
is not able to successfully complete its planned product
development efforts or to ship Cascade systems or next-generation
Sonexion storage systems within the planned timeframe or at all,
the risk that the Cascade system or next-generation Sonexion
storage system will not have the features or components currently
planned, the risk that Intel processors planned for the Cray
Cascade system are not available when expected and such other risks
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