Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract

The Interfacer writes "Cray and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced that Cray has won the contract to install a next-generation supercomputer at the DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The systems and multi-year services contract, valued at over $52 million, includes delivery of a Cray massively parallel processor supercomputer, code-named 'Hood.'"

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Cray "getting it" might let them come back.

[Jerk City Troll]

Cray finally figured it out. I have been saying for years: HPC/Beowulf clusters are about building machines around problems

That is why Clusters are such a powerful paradigm. If your problem needs more processors/memory/bandwidth/data access, you can design a cluster to fit your problem and only buy what your need. In the past you had to buy a large supercomputer with lots of engineering you did not need. Designing clusters is an art, but the payoff is very good price-to-performance. A good article on this topic is the Cluster Urban Legends, which explains many of these issues.

good to see...

[Connie_Lingus]

the Cray brand making a comeback in the super-computer area. I can remember fondly the days of my engineer CS days longing looking at those Cray supercomputers (was that a couch around it?!? COOL!) in awe and just wondering what they could possibly be computing with 512M of RAM and a 2G super-cooled processor. SUPER COOLED!

Then it was back to my PDP-11 ...reality bit.

Re:Just enough for them to limp along...

[afidel]

Nope, the NSA's budget is almost entirely black (covert). In fact one senator quipped after the NSA headquarters building was built that they spent x billion and had no clue on what.