GE's GE Global Research Acquires Cray Inc.'s Supercomputer

Cray Inc. announced that the Company has sold a Cray XE6m supercomputer to GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company. The new Cray XE6m supercomputer will be used to support simulation-based engineering and science across the various disciplines at GE Global Research. The Cray system will give GE Global Research the ability to run more complex simulations in order to explore multi-physics challenges, gain higher fidelity insights and pursue areas of science and product development that could not be simulated using standard commodity clusters. The Cray XE6m system, the midrange version of the Cray XE6 supercomputer, is optimized to support scalable application workloads in a cost-effective system. With a flexible, scalable and performance-optimized Cray Linux Environment, Cray XE6m users can leverage an operating system that makes it easier for a wide variety of applications to benefit from superior scalability. With Cray's Cluster Compatibility Mode (CCM), Cray XE6m customers also benefit from the streamlined installation of a broad set of independent software vendor (ISV) applications.