Cray Powers Breakthrough Discoveries With Urika-XC -- Delivering Analytics and AI at Supercomputing Scale
June 20 2017 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
the launch of the Cray® Urika®-XC analytics software suite,
bringing graph analytics, deep learning, and robust big data
analytics tools to the Company’s flagship line of Cray XC™
supercomputers. The Cray Urika-XC analytics software suite empowers
data scientists to make breakthrough discoveries previously hidden
within massive datasets, and achieve faster time-to-insight while
leveraging the scale and performance of Cray XC supercomputers.
With the Cray Urika-XC software suite, analytics and Artificial
Intelligence (AI) workloads can run alongside scientific modeling
and simulations on Cray XC supercomputers, eliminating costly and
time-consuming movement of data between systems. Cray XC customers
will be able to run converged analytics and simulation workloads
that expand the boundaries of discovery across a wide array of
scientific and commercial endeavors, such as real-time weather
forecasting, predictive maintenance, precision medicine, and
comprehensive fraud detection.
“The massive growth of data is overpowering the capabilities of
commodity clusters and constraining the boundaries of critical
research,” said Fred Kohout, Cray’s senior vice president of
products and chief marketing officer. “Customers will be able to
unlock sophisticated big data analytics at supercomputing speeds
with the Urika-XC software suite, and leverage AI toolkits and
world-class supercomputing technologies to do what they could never
do before.”
The Cray Urika-XC solution is a powerful set of applications and
tools optimized to run seamlessly on the Cray XC line of
supercomputing systems, and re-engineered to take advantage of the
unique scalable architecture of the Cray XC supercomputers,
including the Aries network interconnect. The software package is
comprised of: the Cray Graph Engine, the Apache® Spark™ analytics
environment, the BigDL distributed deep learning framework for
Spark, the distributed Dask parallel computing libraries for
analytics, and widely-used languages for analytics including
Python, Scala, Java, and R. Cray will provide full support for the
software suite.
The Cray Urika-XC analytics software suite exemplifies the
convergence of high performance computing and data-intensive
computing as core workloads for leadership supercomputers. The
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland
is currently using the Cray Urika-XC solution on its Cray XC
supercomputer nick-named “Piz Daint,” which is one of the fastest
supercomputers in the world.
“CSCS has been responding to the increased needs for data
analytics tools and services,” said Prof. Dr. Thomas C.
Schulthess, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
(CSCS). “We were very fortunate to participate with our Cray
supercomputer Piz Daint in the early evaluation phase of the Cray
Urika-XC environment. Initial performance results and scaling
experiments using a subset of applications including Apache Spark
and Python have been very promising. We look forward to
exploring future extensions of the Cray Urika-XC analytics software
suite.”
The Cray Urika-XC software suite will be available in third
quarter of 2017. For more information on the Cray Urika-XC software
suite and the Cray XC series of supercomputers, 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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