Cray Awarded $18 Million Supercomputer Contract From New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
June 19 2017 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
the Company has been awarded a contract with the National Institute
of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) valued at more than $18
million to provide NIWA and its partner, the New Zealand eScience
Infrastructure (NeSI), with three Cray supercomputers – two Cray®
XC50™ supercomputers and a Cray CS400™ cluster supercomputer.
Headquartered in Auckland, NIWA is New Zealand’s largest and
preeminent provider of climate and atmospheric research, and
freshwater and ocean science. NIWA’s mission is to enhance the
economic value and sustainable management of New Zealand’s aquatic
resources and environments, to provide understanding of climate and
the atmosphere, and increase the resilience to weather and climate
hazards to improve safety and wellbeing of New Zealanders. Also
hosted in Auckland, NeSI is a collaborative partnership between the
University of Auckland, the University of Otago, Landcare Research,
and NIWA, which delivers supercomputing services to researchers
nationally.
The new Cray systems will be used for climate research,
numerical weather prediction, data analytics, and general
scientific research in a range of fields including computational
chemistry, engineering, and biomedicine. The systems will be
located at a NIWA facility in Wellington and at the University of
Auckland.
“Our new Cray supercomputers will enable our scientists –
including the largest team of weather and climate scientists in the
country – to provide better information on hugely important issues,
such as how climate change will affect New Zealand,” said NIWA
Chief Executive John Morgan. “The ability of the new Cray systems
to process vast amounts of data in very short spaces of time will
also enable us to build more precise forecasting tools to help
farmers and environmental managers make more informed decisions
using the best information available.”
“Working with our partners, NeSI and Cray designed this new
platform to power our research system in approaching national grand
challenges and discovery science goals,” said NeSI Director Nick
Jones. “The breadth of the Cray platform is impressive, allowing
NeSI to broaden the services we offer. We’re looking forward to
sharing Cray’s impressive technologies with New Zealand’s
scientists, underpinning their important work in managing our rich
and unique ecology, planning and responding to natural disasters,
exploring the early universe, and discovering the inner workings of
biological systems.”
Cray continues to strengthen its leadership position in the
weather forecasting and climate research communities as an
increasing number of the world’s leading centers rely on Cray
supercomputers and storage systems to run their complex
meteorological models. More than two thirds of the World
Meteorological Organization’s Long Range Modelling Centers run Cray
supercomputers for numerical weather prediction, and NIWA is the
latest environmental science organization to deploy Cray systems
for climate research and numerical weather prediction.
“NIWA and NeSI are taking significant steps forward in advancing
their scientific computing capabilities, and we are honored Cray
supercomputers will power their wide array of weather, climate, and
research models,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray.
“Producing more accurate weather forecasts today requires the
ability to process and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data in
a challenging workflow, and our commitment to building powerful and
reliable tightly-integrated supercomputers is reflective of our
leadership position in this space.”
Consisting of products and services, the multi-year contract is
valued at more than $18 million USD. The systems are expected to be
put into production in early 2018.
For more information on the Cray XC supercomputers, the Cray CS
series of cluster supercomputers, and please visit the Cray website
at www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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