Cray cluster
A specialized supercomputer built by Shkreli for early pharmaceutical analysis.
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A Cray cluster refers to a supercomputing system manufactured by Cray Inc., an American company renowned for its supercomputer systems. Founded in 1972 by Seymour Cray as Cray Research, Inc., the company, now a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, continues to produce supercomputers, data storage, and analytics systems. As of June 2026, Cray supercomputers held a significant presence among the world's most powerful, occupying three of the top four positions in the TOP500 ranking. The company has a history of acquisitions and name changes, with the modern Cray Inc. being formed after Tera Computer Company purchased it in 2000 and subsequently adopted the Cray name. In 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquired Cray Inc. for $1.3 billion. Notably, Martin Shkreli mentioned leveraging a Cray cluster in his early career, alongside Natural Language Processing (NLP), for parsing academic papers, though he expressed skepticism about AI's impact on accelerating drug development.
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Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, it also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. As of June 2026, Cray supercomputer systems held three of the top four spots in the TOP500, which ranks the most powerful supercomputers in the world. In 1972, the company was founded by computer designer Seymour Cray as Cray Research, Inc., and it continues to manufacture parts in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where Cray was born and raised. After being acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1996, the modern company was formed after being purchased in 2000 by Tera Computer Company, which adopted the name Cray Inc. In 2019, the company was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion.
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- Cray Cluster Manager
all the tools required to quickly deploy, run and manage HPC clusters with ease. Cray Cluster Manager is built for optimal performance and uptime, while offering management, support and update benefits that are simply not possible with other cluster management solutions. Benefits include: • Fast, flexible cluster deployment • Simple cluster management through an intuitive web management interface • Optimal uptime and productivity – updates applied with no re-booting or re-installation • Quickly and easily build high performance applications through a fully integrated commercial MPI • Accelerated cluster performance with the integrated Platform LSF workload scheduler • Build multi-boot clusters so that multi-OS needs are efficiently fulfilled • Easily scale as your business needs grow [...] than the leaders in supercomputing and high performance computing (HPC) management technologies: Cray Inc. and Platform Computing. Built using open source components, the Cray Cluster Manager powered by Platform Computing includes all the tools required to quickly deploy, run and manage a Linux®-based or dual-boot Cray CX supercomputer while allowing organizations to utilize the systems full potential with unprecedented ease. Running a Cray CX system powered by Cray Cluster Manager is the quickest and easiest way to align technology to meet core business objectives to deliver real, tangible value. Cray Cluster Manager is a “re-think” of how open clusters are deployed and managed. It is a complete, certified solution that includes all the tools required to quickly deploy, run and manage [...] Advanced HPC tools Cray Cluster Manager provides one of the most advanced suites of HPC infrastructure components including libraries pre-optimized for the hardware and networking components. Standard benchmark tests are included to ensure that your cluster will deliver the best per formance possible out-of-the-box. Cray Cluster Manager includes a range of industry standard pre-tuned MPI implementations, making it easy to get your parallel applications up and running quickly. Compatibility and flexibility For ease of installation and management, software is packaged as easy–to–deploy, pre-built “kits”. Kits are easy to build and an ever-growing library of contributed kits from Platform Computing, our partners and others are available at . These kits bring commercial and open support for
- Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray ClusterStor | Microsoft Azure Blog
## Cray® ClusterStor™ in Azure The new Cray® ClusterStor™ in Azure storage system is a high capacity and high throughput storage solution to accelerate your HPC simulations. It is a bare metal appliance that is fully integrated in the Azure fabric and accessible by a large selection of other Azure services. HPC simulations continue to demand more from storage, including more performance AND more capacity, and this imperative remains a key requirement for high-performance workloads in the cloud. [...] Cray® ClusterStor™ inAzure offers a Lustre-based, single-tenant, bare metal and fully managed HPC environment in Microsoft Azure. It can be used with Cray XC and CS series supercomputers and also now supports data processing of HPC jobs executed on H-series virtual machines from Azure. You can move your data within Azure from high-performance scratch, to warm Azure blob storage and cold archive storage. You get access to high performance and capacity during simulation and move post-simulation data to a redundant, less-expensive cloud storage solution, to either be easily distributed or made available for your next simulation. [...] Microsoft Discover what’s coming to Microsoft Ignite, Nov 17-20, 2026. Register now. # Accelerate supercomputing in the cloud with Cray ClusterStor ## Share ## Categories ## Audience ## Content types ## Products We’re excited to announce Cray ClusterStor in Azure, a dedicated solution to accelerate data processing of the most complex HPC jobs running in Azure. Microsoft and Cray are in an exclusive partnership to provide customers with unprecedented access to supercomputing capabilities in Azure and leverage the cloud to modernize how HPC is done. ## Cray® ClusterStor™ in Azure
- HPE Cray ClusterStor | OpsRamp Documentation
# HPE Cray ClusterStor Updated Oct 7, 2026 ## Introduction The HPE Cray ClusterStor is a high-performance, scalable storage system designed for exascale computing, AI, and data-intensive workloads. It is primarily used in HPC (High-Performance Computing) environments, including scientific research, simulations, and AI training.Cray ClusterStor is Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s entry-level storage series. To help you get started, here is what you can do next: To explore the metrics this integration monitors, see Supported Metrics and Default Monitoring Configuration. To configure the integration, see Working with HPE Cray ClusterStor. ## Key Use cases Discovery Use cases
- Cray Details Its Cluster Supercomputing Strategy
Since 2012, the Cray cluster product group has been working with Intel to codesign boards that are purposely built for HPC. These are half-width
- Press Release Issued by Cray Inc.
Highlights of the transaction include: | | | | | --- --- | | | • | | Upon closing, Appro will become Cray’s newly-formed Cluster Solutions business, led by Daniel Kim, current CEO of Appro; | | | | | | --- --- | | | • | | After the completion of the transaction, Cray expects to add approximately 90 Appro employees; | | | | | | --- --- | | | • | | Cray will sell Appro’s HPC cluster products under the Cray brand; | | | | | | --- --- | | | • | | The transaction is expected to close relatively soon, possibly within the next few days or weeks, subject to customary closing conditions. | [...] Seattle, WA – November 9, 2012 – Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) today announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Appro International, Inc., a privately-held developer of advanced scalable supercomputing solutions, for approximately $25 million in cash, which assumes at least a $3.5 million net working capital balance at closing with no debt. Currently the #3 provider on the Top100 supercomputer list, Appro builds some of the world’s most advanced high performance computing (HPC) cluster systems. [...] “Cray has always been a company with a singular focus on the high performance computing market, and with this acquisition, we have strengthened that commitment and will now be positioned to expand our portfolio of highly innovative supercomputing solutions,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. “Appro is one of the market leaders in HPC cluster solutions, and this acquisition is another step forward as we continue to transform Cray into a company that provides world-class offerings to customers across all segments of the supercomputing market, including Big Data. I look forward to welcoming all our new Cray colleagues in this exciting moment for our company – positioning us well for accelerated growth into the future.” Highlights of the transaction include: