The Sandia National Laboratories Red Storm supercomputer will be used for computer simulations of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and other applications. The new Red Storm supercomputer demonstrates a strong commitment by the Department of Energy to providing the innovative technology needed to support the United States' nuclear stockpile stewardship programme.

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for AMD64 technology combines the stability and security of Linux with the performance enhancements available only through the 64-bit architecture.

SuSE's agreement with Cray Inc. will also include developer support from SuSE. "We look forward to working with Cray, an expert in the high-performance computing arena, on this crucial initiative", stated Holger Dyroff, US General Manager, SuSE Linux. "The selection of SuSE for the Department of Energy's new MPP supercomputer demonstrates the stability, scalability and performance of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server on AMD Opteron."

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for AMD64 comes with an optimised kernel that enables high availability solutions and the high-performance interaction with storage systems in the SAN by means of asynchronous I/O and multipathing memory access.

"We selected SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for AMD64 because it combines innovative Linux technology with a powerful architecture for high-performance computing", stated Wayne Kugel, Cray's executive of operations for the Red Storm initiative. "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is a strong operating system for high performance computing and we are excited about our collaboration on this project."