Seattle-based Cray, the supercomputer maker, said yesterday that it has won a $40M contract to install its next generation "Cascade" supercomputers, plus a Cray Sonexion storage system at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Cray said its computer will be used for such uses as climate modeling, biology, environmental sciences, combustion, materials science, chemistry, geosciences, fusion energy, astrophysics, nuclear and high-energy physics, as well as scientific visualization. The supercomputer is expected to go into product in 2013.