"The Shasta-based system selected for NERSC’s new Perlmutter supercomputer incorporates the most-advanced NVIDIA GPU acceleration platform available, providing the U.S. Department of Energy a clear path to exascale computing,” said Ian Buck, vice president and general manager of accelerated computing at NVIDIA. “Whether used for traditional scientific computing or new, emerging AI and machine learning workloads, Perlmutter will offer the scientists that use it an incredibly advanced acceleration platform, an essential tool to help them unlock mysteries and advance science."
           
Supercharged TCO

Designed from the ground up to support a decade or more of advancements in computational processing, Shasta eliminates the need for frequent, expensive upgrades and will drive exceptionally low total cost of ownership over the lifetime of the system.  Shasta packaging comes in two options: a 19” air- or liquid-cooled, standard datacenter rack and a high-density, liquid-cooled rack designed to hold 64 compute blades with multiple processors per blade.  Both options can scale to well over 100 cabinets.  As processor wattage increases over time to boost computational performance, Shasta’s flexible cooling design eliminates the need to do forklift upgrades of system infrastructure to accommodate higher-power processors.  Cray designed Shasta to support processors exceeding 500 watts with highly efficient cooling, resulting in less waste and lower costs while meeting critical processor density requirements.  Shasta systems are also designed to meet warm-water-cooling datacenter standards like W3 and W4 requirements throughout the world.  

Availability

Shasta systems are expected to be commercially available in Q4 of 2019.  Please contact your authorized Cray sales representative for more information.

SC18

Stop by the Cray booth at SC18: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, November 11-16, 2018 in Dallas, Texas to learn more about Shasta and Cray’s new interconnect, Slingshot.

About Cray Inc.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, including, but not limited to, statements related to Cray’s product development, sales, and delivery plans relating to Shasta supercomputing systems, the timing and delivery of the compute and storage system ordered by NERSC and Cray’s ability to deliver a system that meets NERSC’s requirements.  These statements involve current expectations, forecasts of future events and other statements that are not historical facts. Inaccurate assumptions and known and unknown risks and uncertainties can affect the accuracy of forward-looking statements and cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements.  Factors that could affect actual future events or results include, but are not limited to, the risk that Cray is not able to successfully complete its planned product development efforts or to ship Shasta systems within the planned timeframe or at all, the risk that Shasta systems will not have the features, performance or components currently planned, the risk that processors and interconnect technology planned for Cray Shasta systems are not available when expected or with the performance or pricing expected, the risk that the compute and storage system required by NERSC is not delivered in a timely fashion or does not perform as expected and such other risks as identified in the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018, and from time to time in other reports filed by Cray with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  You should not rely unduly on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this release.  Cray undertakes no duty to publicly announce or report revisions to these statements as new information becomes available that may change the Company’s expectations.

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