Alfred Wegener Institute Selects Cray CS400 Cluster Supercomputer to Advance Polar and Marine Research - Seite 2

"The Alfred Wegener Institute is world renowned for innovative research aimed at solving the monumental scientific challenges associated with polar and marine research," said Catalin Morosanu, Cray's vice president of sales for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. "As a leader in providing supercomputing systems for prominent earth sciences centers around the world, we take great pride in building computational tools that allow our customers to achieve scientific breakthroughs. We are honored that a highly-regarded organization such as the Alfred Wegener Institute has selected a Cray supercomputer to power its important research."

The Cray CS400 system at AWI -- along with future Cray CS cluster supercomputers -- will be available with the new Intel® Omni-Path Architecture, a next-generation, high-bandwidth, low-latency fabric specifically designed for high performance computing systems. Intel's Omni-Path Architecture, an element of the Intel® Scalable System Framework, is designed for performance and efficiency for a range of challenging workloads.

"Intel is proud to collaborate with Cray on this significant achievement, bringing a system using Intel Omni-Path Architecture and the Intel Scalable System Framework to AWI to support critically important climate research at unprecedented scale," said Charles Wuischpard, vice president and general manager of HPC Platform Group at Intel. "Our companies have built a strong partnership based on introducing new technologies that provide powerful computational tools for supercomputing users. We are pleased that Cray is one of the early adopters of the Intel Omni-Path Architecture, and adding this new technology to the CS400 systems will create a compelling solution for Cray customers."

The Cray CS400 cluster supercomputers are scalable, flexible systems built from optimized, industry-standard building block server platforms into a unified, fully-integrated system. Available with air or liquid-cooled architectures, Cray CS400 systems provide superior price/performance, energy efficiency and configuration flexibility. The Cray CS400 systems are integrated with Cray's HPC software stack and include software tools compatible with most open source and commercial compilers, schedulers, and libraries.