Microsoft, cray launch 'personal' supercomputer for $25K
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Microsoft and Cray on Tuesday unveiled CX1, a compact, competitively priced supercomputer that the companies said they developed jointly for customers who perform tasks such as simulations that require compute-intensive environments.
Cray's CX1 computer runs Windows HPC Server 2008 and is available for customers to order now for delivery in October at a starting price of US$25,000, said Kyril Faenov, general manager of Microsoft's HPC team. Faenov said that people in markets such as financial services, aerospace, automotive, academic and life sciences who must do simulations and modeling that require a certain level of computing performance have two options, neither of which is easy.