Cray Launches Next-Generation Supercomputer
November 14 2016 - 2:01AM
At the 2016 Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah,
global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
the launch of the Cray® XC50™ supercomputer – the company’s fastest
supercomputer ever with a peak performance of one petaflop in a
single cabinet.
The Cray XC50 supercomputer is engineered to address the broad
application performance challenges of today’s most demanding high
performance computing (HPC) users. Special features of the Cray
XC50 supercomputer include:
- the industry-leading Aries network interconnect, which is
designed specifically to meet the performance requirements seen in
today’s emerging class of data center GPU accelerated applications,
where high node-to-node communication performance is critical;
- a Dragonfly network topology tightly integrated with Aries that
reduces communication latency for scale-out applications that rely
heavily on the Message Passing Interface;
- optional SSD-enabled DataWarp™ I/O accelerator technology,
enabling software-defined provisioning of application data for
improved performance;
- innovative cooling systems to lower customers’ total cost of
ownership;
- the next-generation of the high performance and tightly
integrated Cray Linux Environment that supports a wide range of
applications;
- image-based systems management for easy upgrades, less
downtime, and field-tested large-scale system deployment;
- enhancements to Cray’s HPC optimized programming environment
for improved performance and programmability of GPU
environments;
- support for the NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerator as well as
support for next-generation Intel® Xeon® and Intel Xeon Phi™
processors.
“Supercomputing applications are evolving to include more deep
learning algorithms, and with this evolution, the uses for GPUs in
our systems are increasing, enabling our customers to use new
analytics techniques to gain insight from increasingly large and
complex data,” said Ryan Waite, Cray’s senior vice president of
products. “The new Cray XC50 system represents a major advancement
in our supercomputing capabilities. It provides the highest
performance density of any Cray supercomputer, and gives customers
the computational resources they need to take on larger, more
complex workloads, as well as the next generation of scientific
challenges.”
Located in Lugano, Switzerland, CSCS is currently upgrading its
Cray XC30™ supercomputer nick-named “Piz Daint” to a Cray XC50
system, and will combine it with the Centre’s Cray XC40™
supercomputer nick-named “Piz Dora”. Once completed, the
combined system will adopt the Piz Daint name and will be one of
the fastest supercomputers in the world.
“Our new Cray XC50 supercomputer will significantly accelerate
our computational research capabilities allowing our users to
perform more advanced, data-intensive simulations, visualizations
and data analyses across a wide array of scientific studies,” said
Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Shulthess, director of the Swiss National
Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). “Cray’s next-generation
supercomputer and its continued integration of GPU acceleration has
created a powerful and efficient hybrid multi-core system for
addressing our current and future HPC workloads.”
For more information on the Cray XC50 supercomputer, please
visit the Cray website at www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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