Vanguard to Tap Cray for New Stargate Imaging Security Solution
November 29 2018 - 9:00AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that Vanguard Infrastructures, Inc. has selected the Cray® XC™
supercomputing system as the compute and real-time analytics engine
for the new Vanguard Stargate Imaging security scanning solution.
The Cray XC system was selected because of its exceptional ability
to process massive amounts of data at high speed.
Until now, scanning and inspecting large volumes of goods in
transit and across borders was a slow, intrusive process that,
either didn’t meet all security requirements, or created
unacceptable shipping delays. The Vanguard Stargate Imaging
security solution addresses these key pain points by delivering
speed and accuracy in a highly scalable, and secure 3D imaging
system that tracks carrier container content with advanced scanning
methods at high-speeds.
The Stargate Imaging solution identifies the atomic numbers
associated with materials in a shipping container at near real-time
speed to spot potentially threatening or hazardous content without
the need to open and manually inspect each container. Stargate
Imaging scanners can be sized to cover pallets, tarmac scanners for
aircraft containers, mobile scanners, border crossing scanners for
trucks and railcars and seaport containers. The Cray XC
supercomputing systems provide the necessary compute and analytics
capability to process and analyze these large volumes of data, in
near real-time.
“Cray is a natural choice for the innovative Stargate Imaging
solution,” said Vanguard’s CEO, Troy Cooper. “The compute
scalability, the analytics software environment, and sheer
horsepower are critical to enable the Stargate Imaging
solution.”
The Vanguard Stargate Imaging solution is designed to be
deployed at ports of entry with a high volume of goods in
transshipment. A Cray XC system will support each Stargate Imaging
security scanner in the field, as well as serve as the data and
analytics processing engine in centralized data centers. Vanguard
plans to have their first Stargate Imaging systems deployed in Q4
2019.
“We are excited about the potential of Vanguard’s Stargate
Imaging security solution,” said Frederick Kohout, senior vice
president and CMO at Cray. “It is a great example of a new class of
applications in the digital era that surpass the capability of
traditional enterprise server infrastructure and require the
largescale data processing and data movement Cray systems are built
to handle.”
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that challenge the limits of possibility. Drawing on more than 45
years of experience, Cray develops the world’s most advanced
supercomputers, pushing the boundaries of performance, efficiency
and scalability. Cray continues to innovate today at the
convergence of data and discovery, offering a comprehensive
portfolio of supercomputers, high-performance storage, data
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Safe Harbor StatementThis press release
contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements
related to the planned deployment of Stargate Imaging systems
utilizing Cray systems. These statements involve current
expectations, forecasts of future events and other statements that
are not historical facts. Inaccurate assumptions and known and
unknown risks and uncertainties can affect the accuracy of
forward-looking statements and cause actual results to differ
materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking
statements. Factors that could affect actual future events or
results include, but are not limited to, the risk that Vanguard is
not able to deploy Stargate Imaging systems utilizing Cray systems
as or when expected or at all, the risk that Cray XC systems for
Stargate Imaging systems are not delivered in a timely fashion or
do not perform as expected and such other risks as identified in
the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
September 30, 2018, and from time to time in other reports filed by
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only as of the date of this release. Cray undertakes no duty to
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information becomes available that may change the Company’s
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and other countries, and XC are trademarks of Cray Inc. Other
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