SOURCE: Cray Inc.
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March 13, 2008 07:25 ET
Cray Joins European Automotive Simulation Center
Public-Private Partnership to Advance Research in Automotive Technologies
SEATTLE, WA and HEIDELBERG, GERMANY--(Marketwire - March 13, 2008) - Global supercomputer
leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today
announced that its German subsidiary has joined the Automotive Simulation
Center Stuttgart (ASCS), a groundbreaking and innovative public-private
partnership aimed at advancing the automobile industry through
high-performance computing (HPC). Composed of software designers,
scientists and researchers and top automobile manufacturers, ASCS will
combine the expertise of key scientists and industry representatives with
leading-edge supercomputing technologies to conduct research aimed at
developing quiet, low pollution vehicles; creating products for the market
that reduce fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions and enhance safety;
increasing cost efficiency and speeding time to market with new products.
ASCS members include the High Performance
Computing Center Stuttgart at the University of Stuttgart in Germany,
automobile manufacturers Porsche, Daimler and Opel and software vendors
ABAQUS, Altair Engineering, DYNAmore, Engineous Software and INTES, among
others. ASCS will utilize industry-leading supercomputing technologies at
the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Stuttgart.
"Groundbreaking advancements in both science and industry come about
through the collaboration of scientific expertise and the most innovative
and highly scalable technology," said Peter Ungaro,
president and CEO of Cray. "ASCS is bringing together industry experts and
top scientists with the aim of developing products and energy-efficient
technologies as well as enhancing product development and optimization
practices for the automobile industry throughout the world. We are
thrilled to be part of this project and look forward to seeing and
benefiting from the innovations that result."
The initial funding for the project was provided by the Ministry of Science
of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and the University of Stuttgart.
The ultimate goal is to establish ASCS as a non-profit organization to be
funded through membership fees and third-party contributions. The first
ASCS projects on fuel injection optimization and increasing product
development efficiencies are now getting underway.
"ASCS provides the opportunity for Cray to engage with both industrial HPC
users and software vendors at the earliest stage of the mathematical
simulation process," said Dr. Ulla Thiel, vice president of Cray Europe.
"We helped found ASCS as part of Cray's growing R&D commitment in Europe
and to the ongoing collaboration between science and industry. We are
delighted to offer industrial customers access to Cray's strong HPC
expertise through this partnership."
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