Cray Expands Customer Base for Cray Urika-GX System and Previews Upcoming Software Release
15 November 2016 - 7:02PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
new customers for the Cray® Urika-GX™ system at the 2016
Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, and highlighted
expanded capabilities for the agile analytics platform coming in
December. Cray continues to build momentum for the Cray Urika-GX
system, which fuses supercomputing technologies with an open,
enterprise-ready software framework for big data analytics.
Cray was recently awarded contracts for Cray Urika-GX system
from customers specializing in manufacturing, and customer
engagement. These new customers include the High Performance
Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS), and Phizzle
– a customer engagement marketing and Internet of Things (IoT)
company that enables the ingestion, analysis and reaction to big
data in real time. The new contracts follow a previously announced
collaboration with Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services to offer
threat analytics services powered by the Cray Urika-GX system.
“Cray has a long history of partnering with customers as they
face complex and evolving analytics challenges,” said Ryan Waite,
Cray’s senior vice president of products. “The steady adoption of
Urika-GX from a broader set of customers validates the benefits
from integrating supercomputing hardware with powerful, open source
analytics software like Apache Spark, to face those challenges. Our
December update will provide additional support for enterprise
customers with broader storage connectivity and broader data
visualization support.”
At HLRS, a project is underway to combine high performance
computing and high performance data analytics to expand the
Center’s capabilities in automotive manufacturing. HLRS, which
works in close collaboration with its industrial partners in the
aerospace and automotive industries, will acquire two Urika-GX
systems to help drive more predictive maintenance by implementing
IoT style analytics with complex, large-scale modeling
workloads.
“In the automotive industry, high performance computing and data
analytics play an important role in product development, and with
the progress of digitization, even larger and more complex data
sets are generated that cannot be analyzed using conventional
methods,” said Prof. Dr. Michael Resch, director of HLRS. “In
cooperation with Cray and industrial users in the region, we are
testing the possible applications of hardware in industrial
environments, and the Urika-GX system will play an important role
for us as we work to find a practical solution.”
The collaboration between Cray and Phizzle will allow software
developers on its phz.io platform to support customers at greater
scale and speeds by achieving a 16x performance increase over their
existing infrastructure. Developers will be able to leverage
Phizzle’s phz.io platform on its Cray Urika-GX system to gain
supercomputing speeds that have previously been too complex or
expensive to access.
“Powered by the Cray Urika-GX, phz.io will change the way
everyday developers interact with their consumers,” said Stephen
Goldberg, CTO of Phizzle. “By putting supercomputing and analytics
in the hands of mobile, enterprise, and application developers who
traditionally would not have access to Cray, phz.io allows
developers to interact and react at speeds never seen before.”
Cray is also introducing new software features to further enable
enterprise customers. With the upcoming software release in
December, Cray Urika-GX customers will be able to take advantage of
a broader range of enterprise storage, including GPFS (General
Parallel File System) and NFS (Network File System). Additionally,
the Cray Urika-GX system will enable customers to leverage Tableau
visualization tools and the latest version of Spark 2.0.
The Cray Urika-GX system features Intel® Xeon® E5 v4 processors,
up to 22 terabytes of DRAM memory, up to 176 terabytes of local SSD
storage capacity, and the high speed Aries network interconnect,
which together provide the unmatched in-memory compute and network
performance necessary to solve the most demanding big data
problems. An exclusive feature of the Cray Urika-GX system is the
Cray Graph Engine for fast, complex pattern matching and iterative
discovery. With the Cray Graph Engine, customers can tackle
multi-terabyte datasets comprised of billions of objects to uncover
hidden relationships in even the nosiest of data. The Cray Graph
Engine can run in conjunction with open analytics tools such as
Hadoop and Spark, enabling customers to build complete end-to-end
analytics workflows and avoid unnecessary data movement.
For more information on the Cray Urika-GX system, please visit
the Cray website at www.cray.com.
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developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
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