Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract

The Interfacer writes "Cray and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced that Cray has won the contract to install a next-generation supercomputer at the DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The systems and multi-year services contract, valued at over $52 million, includes delivery of a Cray massively parallel processor supercomputer, code-named 'Hood.'"

Just anounced

[edwardpickman]

Hood is within specs for Vista. A big relief for Cray since they weren't sure it'd meet memmory specs for Vista.

Let's just hope

[Anonymous Coward]

That the DOE isn't hoodwinked by using such an energy consuming device to research energy consumption.

Pinky...

[Null Nihils]

are you pondering what I'm pondering?

I think so, Brain! NERSC! POIT!

Why Cray doesnt sell

[free space]

The system uses thousands of AMD Opteron processors...

Because of it's power requirements, Cray's only possible customer was the Department of Energy :)

Re:Just anounced

[Bruce McBruce]

With those 39 terabytes of memory, they might set their sights on the stuff dreams are made of - Vista Premium.

Vista will come early

[free space]

Overheard at Microsoft:

Boss1: Cray has developed a computer that actually runs Vista fast

Boss2: I see, let's remove that "optimization" box from the gantt chart then..

Boss1: But customers will compain that they can't afford to buy a supercomputer

Boss2: What? it runs AMD! how can it be expensive....those morons

Hood?

[nsushkin]

It's named "Hood"? What are they going to calculate, protein folding in ice cream? ;)

Re:Cray "getting it" might let them come back.

[NixLuver]

From TFA:

"The system uses thousands of AMD Opteron processors running tuned, light-weight operating system kernels and interfaced to Cray's unique SeaStar network."

That's a cluster.

Re:Hood?

[Duhavid]

No, the answer to the question: Prinz Eugen or Bizmark.

specmarks?

[Anonymous Coward]

Back in the day, one of the selling points of the soon to be released Cray 3 was that it was so fast, it could do an infinite loop in only 4 days! How have things progressed since '91:: Does an infinite loop only take a day or few hours now?

Re:Pinky...

[Verity_Crux]

are you pondering what I'm pondering?

I think so, Brain, but how do we get that many processors into a pair of rubber pants?

Re:Just anounced

[Anonymous Coward]

It isn't too hard to find a video card with 128 millibits of video RAM

Possible Use

[Van Cutter Romney]

The Hood supercomputer at NERSC will consist of over 19,000 AMD Opteron 2.6-gigahertz processor cores...

The Ultimate Gaming Machine!!!

Hood?

[Tavor]

Will it be promptly sunk by the a German supercomputer named Bismark?