| Cray Attends ISC08:
"Where the Global HPC Community Meets" |
 Last June, the 23rd International Supercomputing Conference ISC2008 took place in Dresden, Germany. ISC is Europe's leading conference and exhibition in supercomputing. Attendance at this year's event was unprecedented, with approximately 1,400 attendees from around the globe.
Cray was among approximately 90 vendors at the conference. Besides having a strong booth presence on the exhibition floor, Cray CTO Steve Scott led an exhibitor presentation on the Cray product roadmap and participated on a "hot seat" panel discussion on major HPC issues. Throughout the conference, Cray CEO Peter Ungaro, Cray Europe Vice President Ulla Thiel and other Cray executives met with key international customers and strategic international technology reporters. For the next three years, ISC will be held in Hamburg, Germany. |
| SciDAC 2008 Conference |
 The U.S. Department of Energy's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program brings together the nation's top researchers to tackle challenging scientific problems. Cray was invited to talk at this year's annual SciDAC conference held in Seattle on July 13-17. Barry Bolding presented Cray's vision for a Green HPC future, discussing liquid and air-cooling technologies at Cray and in HPC in general. Approximately 100 people attended this session in which both Intel and IBM also presented.
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| Researchers Run World's Largest-scale Fusion Energy Simulation |
Researchers from the University of California-Irvine ( UCI) have conducted the largest-ever fusion energy simulation on a Cray XT4 TM supercomputer. Codenamed " Jaguar" and housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL), researchers harnessed the power of the highly scalable Cray system to simulate electron transport for a prototype fusion reactor developed to study the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy.
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| Researchers Break Ground in Storm Prediction |
Researchers from the University of Oklahoma's Center for Analysis and Prediction Storms ( CAPS) used a powerful Cray XT3 TM supercomputer housed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center ( PSC) to incorporate real-time radar data into their high-resolution thunderstorm forecasting model for the first time. This critical milestone in severe weather prediction, part of the annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA) Hazardous Weather Testbed ( HWT) Spring Experiment, demonstrated an ability to predict storms more accurately and with improved lead time. |
| Technical Workshop Europe |
 Please join us at the Cray Technical Workshop Europe 2008, hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland on September 24-26. Attendees will see an exciting program addressing capability computing and highlighting future innovations from Cray.
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| Scientific Simulations Study Human Height, Galaxial Gravitation and DNA Binding |
 Human growth and attained height are typical multi-factorial traits, determined not only by genetic factors but also by environmental factors such as nutrition during adolescence and conditions during pregnancy. Using CSC's Cray XT4 "Louhi" supercomputer and "Corona" supercomputer, scientists estimate that genetic factors explain more than 80% of the observed variation in height. Read more
 Researchers from the University of Turku's Tuorla Observatory utilized CSC's Cray XT4 "Louhi" supercomputer to specifically clarify which fractions of the observed groups of galaxies are gravitationally bound true objects and which are only groups in a visual sense. Read more
 A team from the University of California at Irvine is employing NERSC's Cray XT4 " Franklin" to explore the complex interactions of human DNA with proteins and nanoparticles, to investigate critical problems in designing and delivering anti-cancer drugs and gene therapy. Read more |
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