Today we welcome a new large-scale system into the high performance computing fold with the formal announcement of Cori, a new supercomputer set to be installed at NERSC in the mid-2016 timeframe. Known in its RFP stages as NERSC-8, the new machine will sport over 9300 nodes, featuring the next-generation Knights Landing architecture housed within a Cray XC environment. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/04/29/emerging-system-sets-stage-exascale-science/.