Cray to Provide Cray Urika-GX System to the Alan Turing Institute
July 13 2017 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
the Company will provide a Cray® Urika®-GX system to the Alan
Turing Institute through a collaboration between Cray, Intel, and
the Institute. Hosted at the University of Edinburgh in the
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), the Cray Urika-GX
system will provide researchers at the Alan Turing Institute with a
dedicated analytics hardware platform, enabling the development of
advanced applications across a number of scientific fields
including engineering and technology, defense and security, smart
cities, financial services and life sciences.
The Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom’s national
institute for data science, and brings together researchers from a
range of disciplines to tackle core challenges in data science
theory and application. The Institute is named in honor of Alan
Turing, whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied
mathematics, engineering, and computing are considered to be the
key disciplines comprising data science. With the addition of the
Cray Urika-GX system, the Institute’s researchers will have access
to Cray’s agile analytics platform, which fuses supercomputing
technologies with an open, enterprise-ready software framework for
big data analytics.
“The Alan Turing Institute was created to advance the
world-changing potential of data science,” said Sir Alan Wilson,
CEO of the Alan Turing Institute. “Our researchers require powerful
computing technology in order to enable their research, and the
Cray system, based in the University of Edinburgh, one of our
founding university partners, will be an important addition to the
Turing’s data science toolkit. We look forward to opening it up to
our community of researchers and enabling their innovation to
thrive.”
“The Alan Turing Institute is quickly becoming a major force in
the data sciences community worldwide, and we are thrilled the Cray
Urika-GX system will support the Institute’s mission of advancing
data science research to change the world for the better,” said
Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. “The rise of
data-intensive computing – where big data analytics, artificial
intelligence, and supercomputing converge – has opened up a new
domain of real-world, complex analytics applications, and the Cray
Urika-GX gives our customers a powerful platform for solving this
new class of data-intensive problems.”
“The convergence of HPC and analytics are unleashing a global
wave of discovery and innovation. The Alan Turing Institute aims to
use advanced data science and powerful technology to improve the
lives of everyone,” said Trish Damkroger, Vice President of
Technical Computing at Intel. “Solution leaders like Cray with
their Intel-based Cray Urika-GX system provide the technical
foundation to deliver the ever-increasing capabilities needed by
leading researchers and scientists.”
The Cray Urika-GX agile analytics platform features a scalable
analytics software environment designed to support large-scale data
science activity. An exclusive feature of the Cray Urika-GX system
is the Cray Graph Engine, which leverages the high-speed Aries
network interconnect, to provide unprecedented, large-scale graph
pattern matching and discovery operations across complex
collections of data. Also supported is the Apache® Spark™ cluster
engine and the Apache Hadoop® software library, both included to
provide the tools necessary for large-scale analytics and machine
learning operations. When combined, the three environments –
Spark, Hadoop and the Cray Graph Engine – enable customers to build
complete end-to-end analytics workflows and avoid unnecessary data
movement. Underlying the analytics stack, is an open
high-performance system featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v4
product family, up to 22 terabytes of DRAM memory, and up to 176
terabytes of local Intel P3700 series SSD storage capacity.
For more information on the Cray Urika-GX system, please
visit the Cray website at www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc. Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
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