Cray Signs Contract to Upgrade and Expand the Cray XE6 Supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh (CRAY)

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. CRAY today announced it will upgrade and expand the Cray XE6 supercomputer located at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Cray has signed a contract with the University of Edinburgh HPCX Ltd. and the upgrade and expansion will provide high performance computing services for users of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, which is the managing agent for the High-End Computing Terascale Resource project. HECToR is the UK's national supercomputing service, and its users will soon be able to apply the resources of an 827-teraflops supercomputing system towards studying complex problems with global impacts. Cray will add 10 cabinets to the existing 20-cabinet Cray XE6 system and will also upgrade all of the supercomputer's processors to the new AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor. The expansion and upgrade is expected to be completed later this year.