"The Cray CX1 system is designed to drive high performance computing farther into the mainstream, and we are delighted with the excitement the system has generated with customers and our reseller partners," said Ian Miller, senior vice president of the productivity solutions group and marketing at Cray. "Incorporating the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series into our deskside supercomputer is another important milestone as customers can now benefit from the combination of 'ease-of-everything' supercomputing and the performance boost of Intel Xeon."

With the addition of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, the Cray CX1 system now features a new Intel(R) Core(TM) microarchitecture that increases high performance computing (HPC) application performance by up to three times without requiring further investment in software development. Additionally, the microarchitecture combines innovative features to deliver intelligent and scalable performance that is significantly more energy efficient than previous architectures.

"The Intel and Cray collaboration allows HPC users to leverage leading processor technologies and supercomputing expertise to help solve challenging science, engineering and design problems," said Richard Dracott, Intel Corporation's General Manager of High Performance Computing. "The new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series is a great fit for the Cray CX1 system."

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Cray CX1 Supercomputer

The Cray CX1 product is an affordably priced, deskside supercomputer. Easy to configure, deploy, administer and use, it is the "right size" in performance, functionality and cost for a wide range of users, from the single user who wants a personal supercomputer to a department of users as a shared clustered resource. Equipped with powerful Intel Xeon(R) processors and Windows(R) HPC Server 2008 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Clustercorp Rocks+, the Cray CX1 product offers performance leadership across a broad range of applications and standard benchmarks. For organizations wanting to harness HPC without the complexity of traditional clusters, the Cray CX1 supercomputer delivers the power of a high performance cluster with the ease-of-use and seamless integration of a workstation.

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