Cray Awarded $174 Million Supercomputer Contract From the National Nuclear Security Administration - Seite 2

Through a phased deployment, Cray will provide the NNSA with a multi-petaflop supercomputing system and a multi-petabyte Cray Sonexion storage system. The Trinity system will be a next-generation version of the Cray XC30™ supercomputer, and will include future Intel® Xeon® processors code-named "Haswell" and future Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors code-named "Knights Landing." Trinity will be located at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

"NNSA's selection of the Cray XC supercomputer, powered by future Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi processors, will deliver great application performance for a wide set of codes while the binary compatibility between the processors will allow the NNSA to reuse existing codes," said Charles Wuischpard, vice president and general manager of Workstations and HPC at Intel. "Intel is excited to build upon our longstanding and successful collaboration with Cray to deliver this vanguard HPC system to the NNSA."

The Cray Sonexion storage solution at NNSA will include 82 petabytes of capacity and 1.7 terabytes per-second of sustained performance. Cray's Sonexion storage system combines Cray's Lustre® expertise with a unique design that allows scalability from five gigabytes per-second to more than a terabyte per-second in a single file system -- and performs optimally at scale. Management is simplified through an appliance design with all storage components including software, storage and infrastructure.

Previously code-named "Cascade," the Cray XC30 series of supercomputers is engineered to meet the performance challenges of today's most demanding high performance computing (HPC) users. The Cray XC30 and Cray XC30-AC™ supercomputers include: the Aries system interconnect; a Dragonfly network topology that frees applications from locality constraints; innovative cooling systems to lower customers' total cost of ownership; the next-generation of the scalable, high performance Cray Linux Environment supporting a wide range of applications; Cray's HPC optimized programming environment, and the ability to handle a wide variety of processor types.

Consisting of products and services, the multi-year, multi-phase contract is valued at more than $174 million in total, with substantial system acceptances expected to occur in both late-2015 and 2016.

About the National Nuclear Security Administration
Established by Congress in 2000, NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, reliability, and performance of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing; works to reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad.