API NetWorks, Inc. (formerly Alpha Processor, Inc.) and
supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc. have announced a strategic
alliance to bring the power, openness and scalability of Alpha
Linux to large, mission-critical technical data centers for the
first time.
As part of the multi-year collaboration, API NetWorks will
supply its CS20, one of the world’s most powerful servers in a 1U
form factor, as the foundation for the Cray SuperCluster Series,
the world’s first mission-critical supercomputers based on Linux.
This agreement marks the continued growth of Alpha as a preferred
platform for building the industry’s highest-performing systems and
extends API NetWorks’ technology into the high-end cluster
market.
Cray’s Alpha Linux SuperCluster systems, slated to begin
shipping in mid-2001, are planned to scale eventually to 1000s of
processors to tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems
in emerging fields such as genomics and bioinformatics, and in
cancer research, weather forecasting, petroleum, automotive design
and other advanced government, industrial and university
research.