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Global Launch Partner: Cray

 

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As a global leader in supercomputers, Cray Inc. provides highly advanced supercomputers and world-class services and support to government, industry, and academia. Cray technology enables organizations to  accelerate performance, improve efficiency, and extend  the capabilities.

The Cray CX1 is an ultra-versatile, compact cluster,  purpose-built for use in offices, laboratories, and other non-traditional HPC environments. The CX1 is easy to configure, deploy, administer, and – most importantly –  use. Equipped with Windows HPC Server 2008, and  powerful Intel Xeon processors, the CX1 offers  performance leadership across a broad range of applications and standard benchmarks.

Benefits

  • Affordable, accessible, full-featured HPC platform that gives your organization access to "right-sized" (physical and computational) HPC resources without costly  acquisition and maintenance.

  • Performance and tools to accelerate time to insight with a rich out-of-the-box HPC experience that allows you to continue using your existing applications and corporate resources.

  • A single integrated system that streamlines to deployment, management, scheduling.

  • Optimized infrastructure value that leverages existing corporate and commercial capabilities.

  • Support for top tier HPC ISV applications out-of-the-box, increasing productivity and reducing time to insight.

In the Spotlight

“Cray sees Windows HPC becoming an increasingly important force in the supercomputing market. With Windows HPC Server 2008 and the Cray CX1 high productivity system, we’re bringing the power of Cray  supercomputing to a much wider range of new users. This purpose-built solution  provides incredible value,  offering an affordable and  adaptable system that is easy to install, program and use  with a broad array of applications from independent software vendors (ISVs).”

Ian Miller, Senior Vice President
of Sales and Marketing at Cray

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