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Intel is teaming with Cray on a new generation of 'hybrid' supercomputers

Intel and Cray team up on supercomputers

Pair collaborate on design and engineering project

Shaun Nichols in California

Intel is to embark on a partnership programme with supercomputing specialist Cray Systems.

The two companies will develop the main components for a new generation of supercomputers using multi-core chips and advanced interconnection methods.

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The new systems will be targeted at traditional supercomputing markets, such as engineering calculations and scientific modelling and analysis.

Cray president and chief executive Peter Ungaro said: "This collaboration provides the HPC market segment with access to the best microprocessors the industry has to offer at any point in time, in the most advanced supercomputers in the world."

The two companies expect the initiative to bear fruit in 2010, when Cray plans to ship the first of its Cascade line of supercomputers.

The Cascade project, which is partially backed by a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is an attempt to use multiple processor types and computing methods in a 'hybrid' supercomputer.

This collaboration provides the HPC market with access to the best microprocessors in the industry

Peter Ungaro Cray

The move also marks a win for Intel. Cray had originally planned to base Cascade on chips from rival vendor AMD.

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