Cray announced at a signing ceremony in London that UK Research and Innovation have awarded Cray a £48 million contract award to expand its high-performance computing capabilities with Cray’s next-generation Shasta supercomputer. The new ARCHER2 supercomputer will be the first Shasta system announced in EMEA and the second system worldwide used for academic research. ARCHER2 will be the UK’s most powerful supercomputer and will be equipped with the revolutionary Slingshot™ interconnect, Cray ClusterStor high-performance storage, the Cray Shasta Software platform, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The new supercomputer will be 11X higher performance than its predecessor, ARCHER. The new Cray Shasta-based ARCHER2 system will replace the existing ARCHER Cray XC30 in 2020 and be an even greater capability resource for academic researchers and industrial users from the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. At rates previously unattainable, the new supercomputer will achieve 11X higher performance with only a 27% increase in grid power. The ARCHER2 project provides resources for exploration in research disciplines including oil and gas, sustainability and natural resources, mental and physical health, oceanography, atomistic structures, and technology advancement. The new Shasta system will be the third Cray supercomputer delivered to UKRI, with the previous systems being HECToR and ARCHER. ARCHER2 will be supported by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.