Venerable supercomputer giant Cray announced today that it has landed a pair of contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense worth more than $40 million. As a part of the DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Cray will deliver one XC30 supercomputer and Sonexion storage array to the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, and a pair of XC30s and Sonexion arrays to the Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center in Mississippi.
“Supercomputing is a critical enabler for the wide variety of science, technology, test, evaluation, and acquisition engineering communities that the DOD HPC Modernization Program supports,” John West, director of the DoD’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Modernization Program, said in a press release. “These new systems are a key component of our strategy of making sure the DOD’s scientists and engineers have access to the most modern, capable, and usable computational tools available.”
Cray has closed a number of multi-million dollar contracts for XC30 systems in the past year, including deals to install computers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany and the UK’s new national high-performance computing facility.
The new contracts are good news for Cray as it moves towards its fourth quarter earnings release later this week. Shares of Cray are up more than 60 percent in the past year.
