Cray awarded computer contract

The Defense Department High Performance Computer Modernization Program has awarded Cray of Seattle a $30 million contract for two Cray XC40 supercomputers and two Cray Sonexion storage systems for the U.S. Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at Stennis Space Center, Miss. The Navy DSRC provides high performance computing services and support to DoD scientists and engineers. The Navy's center at SSC is one of five supercomputing centers established by the HPCMP. The computers, which will be used to produce high-resolution coastal-ocean circulation and wave-model oceanography products, are expected to be installed in 2015. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Ala. (Sources: GeekWire.com and Clarion Ledger, CNN Money, 12/15/14)