The Institute for Basic Science in South Korea Awards Cray Contract to Help Advance Scientific Research
20 September 2018 - 11:00PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
that the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has awarded the Company
a contract valued at $9 million for a Cray® XC50™ supercomputer and
Cray® ClusterStor™ L300F storage system. The new supercomputer,
paired with the scale-out Lustre® storage solution, will provide
high-performance capabilities for IBS to expand research in climate
physics and work toward its goal of improving decadal earth system
forecasts and long-term future climate projections.
“By building a high-end supercomputing infrastructure with our
addition of the Cray supercomputer and storage, we will be able to
maximize performance of past-to-future and high-resolution global
climate model simulations while significantly reducing research
duration and costs,” said Axel Timmermann, director of the IBS
Center for Climate Physics (ICCP). “With Cray’s advanced
system design and expertise in high-performance computing
environments, our researchers are well-equipped to address some of
the greatest challenges in oceanography, atmospheric science,
glaciology and other areas.”
Located in Daejeon, South Korea, IBS was established by the
South Korean government with the purpose of advancing the
development of basic science in fields such as physics, chemistry,
mathematics, life sciences, earth science and interdisciplinary
science. The ICCP was established as the first earth science center
within the IBS. ICCP expands the frontiers of earth system science
by conducting cutting-edge research into climate dynamics,
leveraging high-performance computer simulations.
“IBS joins a growing list of research centers using Cray systems
to advance earth science and provide the most powerful tools for
their climate researchers,” said Nick Gorga, vice president of Asia
Pacific sales at Cray. “With the convergence of supercomputing,
analytics and AI, Cray’s platform is uniquely suited for
data-intense problems faced by customers, like IBS, in their quest
for scientific breakthroughs.”
Cray XC Series Cray XC series supercomputers
are designed to handle the most challenging workloads
requiring sustained multi-petaflop performance. Cray XC50
supercomputers incorporate the Aries™ high-performance network
interconnect for low latency and scalable global bandwidth, the
HPC-optimized Cray Linux® Environment, and powerful Cray
Programming Environment tools to deliver extreme scalability and
sustained performance.
Cray ClusterStor Storage SystemsCray’s
ClusterStor storage systems are designed to deliver the right
performance levels, speed, scalability, data protection and
availability to fit within defined requirements and budgets.
ClusterStor systems reduce complexity with seamless design and easy
installation, workload management and data flow. It all adds up to
the industry’s highest-performing and most efficient data storage
platform with the lowest overall TCO. End-to-end integration
between the Cray XC supercomputer and the ClusterStor storage
system ensures the most efficient flow and use of data to speed
time to discovery.
The system is expected to be put into production in December
2018.
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world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the boundaries of
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related to the timing of the system ordered by IBS being put into
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to, the risk that the system required by IBS is not delivered in a
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