Cray Research Superservers Inc with Russian Integrator Open Technologies has sold a CS 6400 super server system to MMM Invest. The 16-processor Sparc machine plus an Oracle7 licence will have cost the Russian financial company a minimum of $2m. According to Sergey Kalin of Open Technologies this could be the most powerful single open system ever sold in Russia. The system was paid for in advance in the summer and is currently being installed by Open Technologies. Final agreement was in August with delivery in October. The Cray system has been sold with several other Sun Microsystems Inc servers. MMM Invest plans to develop its own software using Oracle tools. It was purchased to establish a database of all MMM share holders. MMM Invest is a significant securities trader, dealing in Russian privatisation vouchers. Its reputation was seriously tarnished by the dramatic collapse in value of share certificates distrubuted by A/O MMM last summer – a company in the same group. Sergey Kalin says MMM Invest also hopes to use the system as a means of accessing world wide financial market data. Cray Research Superservers plans to open an office in the Russian capital in a month or two. It also works with Russian value-added resellers Fors, the Moscow Sparc Centre and Jet InfoSystems.
