Red Storm Rising: Cray Wins Sandia Contract

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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[korpiq]

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 :)