Intel gets into bed with Cray Supercomputers

Another blow to AMD’s ego, Cray’s latest and greatest has been centered around AMD Opteron processors. But now Intel has gotten into bed with them to start selling Xeon based systems for future hardware architectures.  Beginning around 2010, Cray will be releasing their new Cascade computer systems and they will be using Xeon processors this time around.

Cray Inc. is a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington.  The US Department of Energy has been known to use Cray’s supercomputer systems at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory utilizing 50 teraflops of speed.  Additionally, Sandia National Laboratories also uses the Cray Red Storm supercomputer capable of performing 41.5 teraflops.