Cray Inc. has been awarded one of the largest contracts in the company's history – a $174 million deal to provide the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) with a next generation Cray XC supercomputer and a Cray Sonexion storage system. According to a company release, the next-generation XC supercomputer will provide the NNSA with a supercomputing system to advance the mission for the agency's stockpile stewardship program. The system, named Trinity by the NNSA, is a joint effort between the New Mexico Alliance for Computing at Extreme Scale (ACES) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories as part of the NNSA Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC). " Both Los Alamos and Sandia have a long history with Cray, going back to the beginning of the supercomputing era and most recently with the Cielo platform, " said Gary Grider, HPC division leader, Los Alamos.