Cray CEO Peter Ungaro Looks at the Future of Supercomputing

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In 2021, Argonne National Laboratory will take delivery of a $500 million, “exascale” supercomputerdeveloped by Cray Inc. and Intel Corp. Known as Aurora, the basketball-court-sized machine will usemore than 200,000 processor cores, burn multiple megawatts of power, and perform a quintillioncalculations in a second.To learn more about the machine, and especially about its relevance to the engineering community,Design News spoke with Peter Ungaro of Cray Inc. Ungaro, who has served as CEO of the supercomputermaker since 2005, has helped drive the company’s profits in the past 14 years, and was named toBloomberg’s list of “Top Tech Turnaround Artists in 2013. He also served on the US Department ofCommerce’s Manufacturing Council from 2010 to 2012 and today advises the US Secretary of Commerceon matters of manufacturing competitiveness.