Cray Supercomputer to Accelerate Environmental Genomics Research at Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineer...
June 18 2019 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences
Engineering (SCELSE), a renowned Research Center of Excellence at
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has
awarded the company a contract for a Cray® CS500™ cluster
supercomputer. SCELSE will use the supercomputer for fast tracking
its environmental meta-omics projects.
SCELSE’s research into understanding and controlling
environmental microbial communities requires incredibly complex
data analysis on a large scale. Running and analyzing these massive
datasets has traditionally been a highly time-intensive process for
life science researchers, who frequently work against the clock to
meet their deadlines, especially in clinical and public health
related projects. With these concerns in mind, system performance
was a key consideration in the center’s search for a new High
Performance Computing (HPC) solution, and the primary reason for
choosing Cray.
“We’re thrilled that SCELSE has placed its trust in Cray to
power its scientific research,” said Nick Gorga, vice president of
sales for the Asia-Pacific region at Cray. “Life science research
is advancing rapidly, and Cray’s technology is helping research
centers across the globe manage the growing complexity and volume
of their data sets, and accelerate time-to-value of data analysis.
With the performance, capacity and scalability of the Cray CS500,
SCELSE’s groundbreaking research will no longer be constricted by
the limits of its computational infrastructure.”
NTU Prof Stephan Schuster, Research Director at SCELSE said,
“The new Cray supercomputer at SCELSE will play an important role
in enabling us to keep pace with the evolving needs and
computational demands of interdisciplinary research. By rapidly
speeding up the time it takes to process and analyze data, we will
be able to save time and energy, and focus on more important
scientific endeavors.”
The CS500 was selected for its superior price-performance,
scalability and functionality – surpassing all other solutions in
an open tender. Cray’s price/performance matrix appealed to SCELSE,
and the core count of the system will contain more than 12,000 AMD
EPYC™ processor cores.
Cray’s CS500 cluster supercomputers are highly scalable,
flexible and customizable systems designed to provide users with a
wide selection of configurations. The CS500 is uniquely suited to
handle the broadest range of simulations and run data-intensive
workloads smoothly at capacity.
The first phase of the system has been delivered and put into
production in June 2019.
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visionaries can keep asking questions 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 analytics and artificial
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information.
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