LAKE WALES, Fla. ‐ Cray Inc. Tuesday (June 20) launched a free, downloadable analytics software suite for it's Intel Xeon powered high-end Urika-XC line of supercomputers at the International Supercomputer Conference (ISC 2017) in Frankfurt, Germany. "All the software in the Big Data Analytics Software Suite is downloadable for the Cray UrikaXC," Tim Barr, Cray's director of analytics and artificial intelligence product strategy, told EE Times in exclusive interview. "We only charge you for maintenance and installation if you want those services from Cray." Cray said its Big Data Analytics Software Suite will accelerate visualization, machine learning, deep learning, weather forecasting, seismic imaging, manufacturing CAE (computer aided design), scientific analysis, climate science, chemistry and materials science, large-scale graph discovery, cancer cell morphology, fraud- and insider-threat detection. However, any application that has to run analytics on large data sets, from sensors to on-line transactions, can benefit, according to Barr. Cray's UrikaXC supercomputers do not need the massively parallel Xeon Phi or Nvidia graphic processing units (GPUs) to get the most out of its Big Data Analytics Software Suite, said Barr, but works with Intel Xeon multi-core processors, the models of which depend on the XC model you choose. The components of the Big Data Analytics Software Suite include Cray's own Graph Engine (which includes the some of the company's fastest graph theoretic algorithms available today), the Apache Spark world-famous analytics environment, the BigDL distributed deep learning framework for Spark, the distributed Dask parallel computing libraries for analytics, and widely-used languages for analytics including Python, Scala, Java, and R. All are open source, but for a fee Cray will provide full support for the software suite, including a software subscription that includes maintenance, updates and technical support from Cray.