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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. Re:Care to shed some light? by bentini · · Score: 5, Informative
    A lot of problems just don't scale well across different systems. Say, fo rinstance, you need to simulate particle interaction...

    Distributed processing is only really good when the subproblems are separate enough that they can be calculated separately.

    Also, supercomputers are a lot better for vector code. Intel and Athlon might say that their current offerings are Vector Processors, but they really aren't. When you need to exploit DLP, supercomputers are the way to go.

    Also, research and funding like this will uncover the techniques that we can expect to be exploited in desktop processors in 5-20 years, so it helps us eventually.