Cray Launches New Agile Analytics System

Cray Inc. has launched the Urika-Gx system, an agile analytics platform that combines supercomputing technologies with an enterprise-ready software framework for Big Data analytics.

According to Cray, the Cray Urika-GX system is pre-tested and pre-integrated with the Hortonworks Data Platform providing Hadoop and Apache Spark, as well as the Cray Graph Engine, designed for solving the largest and most complex graph analytics problems. The system includes enterprise tools, such as OpenStack for management and Apache Mesos for dynamic configuration—all designed to protect customers’ investments in the rapidly-changing big data software landscape.

“The Urika-GX is a dynamic analytics solution that brings out the best of Cray’s decades of expertise in providing our customers with world-class systems for data-intensive computing,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. “Customers have asked us to blend the unique features of our product lines into a single platform for data analytics. We took the Aries system interconnect from our supercomputers, the industry-standard architecture of our clusters, the scalable graph engine from the Urika-GD appliance, and the pre-integrated, open infrastructure of our Urika-XA system and combined them into one agile analytics platform. The Urika-GX gives our customers the tool they need to overcome their most advanced analytics challenges today, and the platform to bridge to tomorrow.”

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.