HPCwire

There has been little doubt that the convergence of traditional high performance computing with advanced analytics has been steadily underway, fed in part by a rush of new tools, frameworks and platforms targeting the big data deluge. And when one thinks about the old guard of supercomputing, Cray is one of the first vendors to come to mind, although they’ve been steadily ramping up efforts to mesh into the broader world of enterprise systems with their own slant on the big data phenomenon. First came the company’s Urika graph analytics appliance just a little over two years ago, which has powered everything from large-scale life sciences applications to the big leagues. As of this morning, Cray will be adding a second machine to their lineup of big data-geared systems with the Urika-XA platform—a Cloudera-based Hadoop appliance, which happens to sport. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/10/15/cray-launches-hadoop-hpc-airspace/.