Seattle supercomputer maker Cray announced today that it has signed a $30 million deal to expand its XC30 system at the University of Stuttgart. The new supercomputer, nicknamed Hornet, will be able to process a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second. The Hornet will be used at the University’s High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, providing a useful tool for scientists and researchers in the automotive and aerospace industries.
“For a number of years now, we have worked in close collaboration with Cray to provide our researchers and scientists, as well as our industrial partners in the automotive and aerospace industries, with the computational resources of highly advanced supercomputing systems,” said Prof. Dr. Michael M. Resch, director of HLRS. “Reliability, performance, support and customer service are vitally important to us, and Cray and its supercomputers continue to meet the requirements of our organization and our vast user community.”
The supercomputer center in Stuttgart was the first organization to buy a XC30 system in 2010. It also has a Cray XE6 system nicknamed “Hermit.” The new system is expected to go into use in 2015.
Shares of Cray are up nearly 40 percent this year, trading at $22.16. It now has a market value of $899 million.
Cray’s new deal comes a day after a list was released with the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world.
Here are the top 6:
—Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, with 33.9 petaflops.
—Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with 17.6 petaflops.
—Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, at 17.17 petaflops.
—Fujitsu’s K at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, with 10.51 petaflops.
—Mira, a BlueGene/Q system installed at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, with 8.59 petaflops.
—Piz Daint, a Cray XC30 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland, at 6.27 petaflops.
