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Red Storm Rising: Cray Wins Sandia Contract

Posted by Hemos on from the storming-back dept.

anzha writes "It seems Cray is alive and kicking at least. They might even be making a come back after its very rough time as a part of SGI. The big news? Cray seems to have won the Red Storm contract - Sandia's newest supercomputer procurement - from Sandia National Labs. Check out the press release here. I'd say that this is probably an SV2, but the press release is a bit scant on details."

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  1. Care to shed some light? by korpiq · · Score: 3, Funny


    I know something about the problems of multiprocessing, but I would like to know how come monumental systems can still sell in the days of commodity hardware and - oh gosh, not again - Beowulf :). Ok, maybe spread-out computing is not applicable to all kinds of computationally heavy problems, but I'd really like to see some stats on where a monolith like Cray is more applicable and where a multilith like what they use in movie rendering.

    Just pondering while waiting for net-enabled market of processing power (remember processtree?) and storage space (freenet, the new one) to make millionaires of all excessive-hardware owners, through paypal. Well, maybe not :)

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  2. Another Tom Clancy adaptation ?? by psycho_tinman · · Score: 1, Funny

    Was I the only one who saw "Red Storm Rising" and thought it was about yet another movie adaption of a Tom Clancy novel ? (might be because I read a Sum of all Fears review recently)...

    Hmmm, on second thoughts, maybe it IS just me..

  3. Obligatory comment by gokulpod · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it run Linux ? If so, how much time would it take to compile the kernel.

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  4. It's still about the time of a coffee break ;) by korpiq · · Score: 1, Funny


    Due to exponential development speed of feature creep, gcc complexity and coffee production, you can still have a coffee break. Just cook the coffee and fill an injector syringe with it before hitting enter. Put the needle between your finger and enter key and push, thus having a coffee needle break as you compile.

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  5. More sales.. by mrselfdestrukt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I believe Cray is gonna sell a lot more High-end systems this year... with Final Fantasy XI being released and all.

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