The New Cray XK6 Supercomputer

Topic: System & Tuning by at Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Cray XK6

Cray XK6 Supercomputer

Cray Inc. announced the launch of the Company’s new production hybrid supercomputing system — the Cray XK6 supercomputer — at the 2011 Cray User Group (CUG) meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska. The highly anticipated new supercomputer will combine Cray’s Gemini interconnect, AMD Opteron(TM) 6200 Series processors (code-named “Interlagos”) and NVIDIA Tesla 20-Series GPUs to create a tightly-integrated supercomputing system upgradeable to more than 50 petaflops (quadrillions of operations/second) of compute power.

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Manno, Switzerland is Cray’s first customer for the new Cray XK6 system. … more

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