The Cray J90 supercomputer is a high-end vector supercomputer that delivers more than a billion floating point calculations per second. The 4 CPUs in the J90 model 916 are binary compatible with Cray Research's legendary J-90 supercomputer.

A great deal of critical infrastructure other than the computer itself is already in place. Clifford Hall was designed to support supercomputing, especially in applications related to agriculture and earth systems science.

Some of the current and future research areas to utilize the Cray include:

• engineering design
• weather prediction
• research in atmospheric, earth systems, space studies, and computer sciences
• agricultural modeling
• remote sensing image processing
• 3D graphic rendering