[CM] Alan Turing institute to get a new Cray

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Title: Cray to Provide Urika-GX System to Alan Turing Institute
Author: Chelsea Lang
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 12:20:03 -0400
Link: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/cray-provide-urika-gx-system-alan-turing-institute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cray-provide-urika-gx-system-alan-turing-institute

Seattle, Wa., July 13, 2017 — 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[1] system, please visit the Cray
website at www.cray.com[2]. 

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 www.cray.com[3] for more information.
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[1]: http://www.cray.com/products/analytics/urika-gx (link)
[2]: http://www.cray.com/ (link)
[3]: https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=tUw7rPUVWaCq-X3OaecC-W-2Lbfj1lWC4RLqYQMQsISzk5ML2cIkc5Oohg0bHZpfOAOgCB292LPl8PXg6pXNoQ== (link)
[4]: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/cray-provide-urika-gx-system-alan-turing-institute/ (link)
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