What do you get when you combine Cray Super Computers and Cambridge Semantics software? The two companies hope it will result in new analytics solutions that scale to Web-sized data.

Cambridge Semantics president Alok Prasad believes the partnership will produce powerful analytics capabilities. "This agreement will enable businesses to handle complex queries and data analytics, address high volume collaboration across partners and across firewalls, and support data driven process needs where data from varied sources can be rapidly integrated to address high volumes of complex data," he said according to a press release.

The two companies will jointly market and sell the products, which will include the Cray XMT system and Cambridge Semantics' Anzo product suite, the release notes.

Shoaib Mufti, Director of Knowledge Management in Cray's Custom Engineering group believes it will help companies develop complex solutions. "The Anzo product suite running on the Cray XMT system is designed to give users the ability to perform complex analysis in real time, while staying within their familiar development environment."

While it's not clear how the products will work together, the goal of combining semantics and super computer power could produce an analytical powerhouse.

For more:
- see the Cray-Cambridge Semantics press release