Founded back in 1972 as Cray Research, Inc., Cray Inc. is a Seattle-based supercomputer manufacturer, which has been using Opteron processors in the last years to create its computing monsters. Since everything comes to an end, Cray decided to move on and switch from AMD to Intel, although it also has plans to develop systems based on future Opterons...


Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray, said "We’re excited at the potential of bringing together Intel’s powerful silicon expertise and Cray's industry leadership in scalable HPC systems. We pride ourselves in offering the most innovative supercomputing systems and our customers will now enjoy greater choice in processor technologies."

One of the reasons of this decision to choose Intel processors for its systems is probably the fact that AMD had a lot of delays in the last two years, and you can't wait for the processors to be ready when you're building a supercomputer, because we're talking about "supermoney," and "superpenalties" that may come as a consequence of those delays.

"This collaboration provides the HPC market segment with access to the best microprocessors the industry has to offer at any point in time, in the most advanced supercomputers in the world. This further strengthens Cray's industry-leading adaptive supercomputing vision as we move into the Cascade timeframe and beyond," Ungaro concluded.