First Cray T3E order for new Cray Inc.

 Seattle 11 May 00 Cray Inc. , has been awarded an $18.5 million contract to upgrade the U.S. Army High Performance Computing Research Center's (AHPCRC) Cray T3E-1200 supercomputer. This marks the first major order for the company formed from the March 31, 2000, Tera Computer Company acquisition of Cray Research from SGI. The contract also includes an option for AHPCRC to acquire next-generation Cray SV2.With the addition of 816 processors to its existing 272-processor Cray T3E-1200 the AHPCRC will operate the largest Cray T3E system in the world. The expanded 1,088-processor system increases the computational capability of the AHPCRC's existing system to a peak performance of 1.3 Tflop/s and memory size of 557 Gbyte.

The expanded Cray T3E system will be used to support the basic research activities of the AHPCRC and its partner academic institutions and also, through the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the basic research requirements of the Department of Defense.

The AHPCRC academic partner institutions include the University of Minnesota, and Clark Atlanta, Florida A&M, Howard, Jackson State, Northwestern and Rice Universities. Clark Atlanta, Florida A&M, Howard and Jackson State are minority serving institutions and have network access to the system via an Army-funded AHPCRC dedicated network. The system is being acquired by and will be operated for the AHPCRC by Network Computing Services, Inc. (NetworkCS).

Funding for acquisition of the system was made available through the DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Program under Department of the Army Contract DAAH04-95-C-0008. Delivery and acceptance of the system is expected in mid-year 2000. Revenues for product sales are recorded by Cray Inc. upon customer acceptance.

 

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