Cray Gets $30 Mln Supercomputer Contract - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (CRAY) Monday said the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program has awarded the company a $30 million supercomputer contract for two Cray XC40 supercomputers and two Cray Sonexion storage systems.

The Cray systems will be located at the U.S. Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center or DSRC at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

The Navy DSRC will use the Cray XC40 supercomputers to produce high-resolution, coastal-ocean circulation and wave-model oceanography products supporting Navy and DoD operations worldwide.