Cray Launches New High Density Cluster Packed With NVIDIA GPU Accelerators

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - Aug 26, 2014) - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the launch of the Cray CS-Storm -- a high-density accelerator compute system based on the Cray® CS300™ cluster supercomputer. Featuring up to eight NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU accelerators and a peak performance of more than 11 teraflops per node, the Cray CS-Storm system is one of the most powerful single-node cluster architectures available today.

Designed to support highly scalable applications in areas such as energy, life sciences, financial services, and geospatial intelligence, the Cray CS-Storm provides exceptional performance, energy efficiency and reliability within a small footprint. The system leverages the supercomputing architecture of the air-cooled Cray CS300 system, and includes the Cray Advanced Cluster Engine cluster management software, the complete Cray Programming Environment on CS, and NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerators. The Cray CS-Storm system includes Intel® Xeon E5 2600 v2 processors.

"With an impressive eight-to-two ratio of GPUs to CPUs, the Cray CS-Storm is an absolute beast of a system," said Barry Bolding, Cray's vice president of marketing and business development. "The Cray CS-Storm is built to meet the most demanding compute requirements for production scalability, while also delivering a lower total-cost-of-ownership for customers with accelerator workload environments. With the combination of an extremely efficient cooling infrastructure, Cray's high-productivity cluster software environment and powerful NVIDIA K40 accelerators, the Cray CS-Storm is designed to be a production workhorse for accelerator-based applications in important areas such as seismic simulation, machine learning and scientific computing."

"Tesla K40 GPU accelerators bring extreme performance to a broad range of HPC and enterprise analytics applications," said Sumit Gupta, general manager of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA. "By combining up to eight Tesla K40 accelerators per node, the ultra-high-density Cray CS300 system dramatically increases the performance levels customers can tap to drive innovation and discovery in seismic imaging, cybersecurity, deep learning, and many other scientific computing areas."

The Cray CS-Storm system is available in flexible configurations. Each 48U standard rack can hold 22 2U compute servers, each with up to eight GPUs and two CPUs delivering more than 250 teraflops per rack. A four cabinet Cray CS-Storm system is capable of delivering more than one petaflop of peak performance.