Cray Awarded Contract with National Nuclear Security Administration

Cray (NASDAQ:CRAY), advanced supercomputing company announced that it has been awarded its third US exascale contract by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy. Exascale computing is the ability for a computer to calculate a billion billion calculations per second to meet growing computer performance demands, driven by AI and large-scale data inflows.

As quoted in the press release:

“The Shasta software used with the El Capitan system expands traditional supercomputing to support the complex workflows and numerous 3D studies necessary to unlock the full potential of exascale computing,” said Bill Goldstein, lab director at LLNL. “The flexibility and extensibility of El Capitan’s software and hardware environment will enable the NNSA laboratories to explore and develop capabilities that leverage the combination of AI and machine learning with modeling and simulation to accelerate time-to-solution for our national security codes. These technologies could apply equally well to multi-physics codes employed outside of the national security domain.”

Cray has a rich history of developing the most performant, scalable and reliable software in supercomputing. This is validated by the vast majority of global weather centers that rely on Cray to deliver time critical numerical weather forecasts. These weather centers are at the forefront of the convergence of HPC, AI and IoT workloads that operate at immense scale.

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