The Cray CS-Storm 500NX system was delivered to Samsung as a fully integrated cluster supercomputer, with Samsung leading-edge memory technologies including NVMe SSDs and 2666Mhz DDR4 RDIMMs, along with the Cray Programming Environment, and full cluster systems management. Photo courtesy of Cray

Seattle, USA - November 14, 2017

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) today announced that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has purchased a Cray® CS-Storm™ accelerated cluster supercomputer.

The Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center (SSIC) procured the system for use in its research into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning workloads, including systems for connected cars and autonomous technologies.

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SSIC, which innovates within multiple technology categories including digital health, IoT, data infrastructure and smart machines, purchased and completed the installation of the three-cabinet Cray CS-Storm 500NX system with NVIDIA® Tesla® Pascal P100 SXM2 GPU accelerators.

The system will facilitate SSIC’s research with powerful, accelerator-optimized solutions for running artificial intelligence and deep learning applications at scale with very large, complex datasets.

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“At Samsung, we believe the rapid growth of data has untold potential to improve the way we live,” said John Absmeier, vice president of Smart Machines, Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center and senior vice president, Autonomous/ADAS Strategic Business Unit, HARMAN.
“But first, we need to understand the technology – leveraging artificial intelligence and deep learning – that provides insights into all that data. Cray’s system helps Samsung do that development, and they even use Samsung’s own solid state drives in their system, providing fast and secure memory access. With Cray’s technology, we look forward to the progress and products our work will unlock.”

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“At Cray, we design our supercomputing systems for companies like Samsung that continually push the boundaries of research, design, and engineering to develop new products that improve people’s lives,” said Fred Kohout, Cray’s senior vice president of products and chief marketing officer.
“We are honored that Samsung has turned to Cray to provide the supercomputing resources  it needs to bring  new innovations to market.”

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The Cray CS-Storm systems provide customers with powerful, accelerator-optimized solutions for running machine learning and deep learning applications at scale.

The Cray CS-Storm 500NX system was delivered to Samsung as a fully integrated cluster supercomputer, with Samsung leading-edge memory technologies including NVMe SSDs and 2666Mhz DDR4 RDIMMs, along with the Cray Programming Environment, and full cluster systems management.

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The Cray CS-Storm 500NX configuration scales up to eight NVIDIA Tesla Pascal P100 SXM2 GPUs using the NVIDIA NVLink™ to reduce latency and increase bandwidth between GPU-to-GPU communications, enabling larger models and faster results for AI and deep learning neural network training.

For more information on the Cray CS-Storm series of supercomputers please visit the Cray website at www.cray.com 


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  for more information.

Cray, and the stylized CRAY mark are registered trademarks of Cray Inc. in the United States and other countries, and CS-Storm is a trademark of Cray Inc.
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