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- Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputer
- What operating systems are they running on?Just curious. :-)RE: Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputerFrom:http://www.nccs.gov/jaguar/#fragment-1Each node runs Cray's version of the SuSE Linux operating system. Cray has tuned the Linux kernel to remove unnecessary services from the compute nodes. The result is that the operating system...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, IBM Corp., Cray Inc., Linux, operating system, supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Cray XT5 Jaguar bests IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputer
- The lead position on ORNL's Top 500 Supercomputer list is now Cray's XT5 "Jaguar" supercomputer, besting IBM's Roadrunner. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Supercomputer, Cray Inc., IBM Corp., Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Cray's Jaguar tops IBM's Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer
- I think.....they yanked the quad cores and put in six core CPUs. The real question is: What happened to all those quads?Yes....It plays Crysis90% Linux, where all the Windose Fanbois now!Doh! Bunch of Homers.Yes, but can it play Crysis ;)?I wanna play Crysis, I think I'll need at least...
- Tags: Linux, IBM Corp., Cray Inc., supercomputer, Crysis
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Cray's Jaguar tops IBM's Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer
- The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" has finally clawed its way to the title of fastest computer in the world. The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as "Jaguar" has finally clawed its way to the title of fastest computer in the world. Sitting back at No....
- Tags: Cray Inc., IBM Corp., Jaguar, supercomputer, IBM, Cray, Erica Ogg CNET News
- News items 2009-11-16
- The Army's brain lives in Seattle
- The title of this Seattle Weekly article is so good that I'm using it for this post. In fact, the newspaper revisits the different contracts that Cray Inc. has signed with the U.S. Department of Defense DoD in 2008. It says that with this $30 million commitment, Cray Inc. is...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Cray Inc., U.S. Department Of Defense, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- A quick look at the Cray CX1
- A quick look at the Cray CX1Yeah, but does it have enoughjuice to run Crysis maxed out? Well, with the bugs in that game, I guess it doesn't matter, eh?Where are Cray fanboys telling us Cray is cheaper than Dell?[i]Cray is cheaper than Dell if you configure a Dell...
- Tags: Cray Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- A quick look at the Cray CX1
- So, what does $90,000+ buy you? Let's take a look at the options available to you when you configure your Cray CX1 system. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Cray Inc., Price, Keyboards, Mice, Storage, Hardware, Peripherals, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputerI Wouldn't Use ItWould you if you were a scientific organization that needed precision calculation and system reliability? I'd rather have a beowulf cluster doing my job than this mess.Horse Power NeededYou can now run vista with all its bloatware in full...
- Tags: Operating systems, supercomputer, Cray Inc., WINDOWS BASED, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer
- Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil on September 16 the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Supercomputer, Cray Inc., Microsoft Corp., Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Application Sensitivity to Link and Injection Bandwidth on a Cray XT4 System
- This paper describes the efforts to characterize application sensitivity to link and injection bandwidth on a Cray XT4 system. Link bandwidth is controlled by modifying the number of rails activated per network link. Injection bandwidth is controlled by modifying the speed of the HyperTransport connection between the Opteron and the...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Cray Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, Injection Bandwidth
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Analyzing the Scalability of Graph Algorithms on Eldorado
- The Cray MTA-2 system provides exceptional performance on a variety of sparse graph algorithms. Unfortunately, it was an extremely expensive platform. Cray is preparing an Eldorado platform that leverages the Cray XT3 network and system infrastructure while integrating a new revision of the MTA-2 processors that is pin compatible with...
- Tags: Algorithm, Platform, Scalability, Cray Inc., Cray MTA-2 System, Engineering
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Build a $2,500 supercomputerYou do need a day off!Monday is Labor Day! lol!Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system.Add a Terabyte or four Raid Array to the system. Available now for $600 in refurb units at buy.com. Don't forget the advent of quad cpu's...
- Tags: RAID, Performance management, Processors, Semiconductors, Blade servers, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deep Blue, Cray Inc., supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- Performance, Reliability, and Operational Issues for High Performance NAS Storage on Cray Platforms
- This paper summarizes performance and failure analyses results for the BlueArc Titan NFS server in the Cray CASA test bed in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsi. The goals of this project are: to observe and describe the file transfer performance and fault recovery behavior of the BlueArc under light and heavy loads...
- Tags: BlueArc, Performance, Cray Inc., High-performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-05-02
- Momentum Webcast: Fast Financial Close With the 2007 Office System (Level 100)
- Financial leaders spend less time processing transactions and more time strategically managing their businesses. The presenter of this webcast explains how to utilize existing, easy-to-use tools to create a controlled, efficient financial close process. The presenter shows how Akona Systems, a Microsoft Certified Partner, helped Cray, Inc. significantly shorten and...
- Tags: Financial, Webcast, Microsoft Office, Cray Inc., Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance
- Webcasts 2007-03-15
- Who's afraid of parallelism?
- Who's afraid of parallelism?Good theoretical modelIf by "theory" you mean "modern mainstream programming languages" then I agree that there is no "theoretical" model for parallel computing. Except for SQL, which can be automatically parallelized.However, anything designed around a nondeterministic finite automata would be inherently parallel for most problems, and...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Programming languages, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Cray Inc., parallelism, SDK, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Cray's future: Out of many, one
- Cray's future: Out of many, oneA penny for your thoughtsThe notion of from the many one is the motto of the US. The US penny has this motto writhen in Latin and it is a powerful notion. Crey needs to look at the Xeon and Itanium processor line from Intel,...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Crey, chip, Intel Itanium, virtual machine, virtualization, Cray Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
- Sarbanes-Oxley delays Cray's annual report
- Sarbanes-Oxley delays Cray's annual reportSOX will do absolutely nothingto prevent the fraud which spawned the laws enactment. When upper management is involved in fraud, no law in the world will prevent it. The changes which the law brought about would only help prevent things like embezzlement by those...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Cray Inc., SOx
- Discussion threads 2005-03-16
- Cray begins selling new mini-supercomputers
- Cray begins selling new mini-supercomputersI want one! NTNT = No TextLinux again!?! hee hee hee snicker:)Butt seriously....just how much speed and performance do we need anyway? I mean here I am sitting in front of my 1.8 ghz G5 iMac loaded with a gig of memory and I'm...
- Tags: Processors, Cray Inc., Apple Inc., Apple Xserve
- Discussion threads 2004-10-04
- Cray promotes two execs
- Cray promotes two execsCray still exists?I wonder who buys them? I guess they still have the support contracts for the existing Crays in the world - but that revenue stream should be drying up. I really liked it when SGI bought them, and then sold them to themselves (in a...
- Tags: Linux, Cray Inc., Crays
- Discussion threads 2004-09-28
- Cray forecasts Red Storm for masses
- Cray forecasts Red Storm for massesNo Windows hereIt's funny, as much as I may personally prefer Windows for my PC use, this is one space where Windows will never be able to compete, simply because of the number of copies of the OS required for this purpose.It's such an exciting...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Unix, Red Storm, Cray Inc.
- Discussion threads 2003-10-27
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