The Cray XC50 is a
massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer
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manufactured by
Cray
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.
The machine can support
Intel Xeon processors, as well as
Cavium ThunderX2 processors,
Xeon Phi processors and
NVIDIA Tesla P100
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GPUs.
The processors are connected by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, in a dragonfly network topology.
The XC50 is an evolution of the XC40, with the main difference being the support of Tesla P100 processors and the use of Cray software release CLE 6 or 7.
Deployed Cray XC50 systems
India
*
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) has deployed a Cray XC50 system named Spacetime with a peak performance of 1 petaflops coupled with Cray ClusterStor L300 Lustre storage system.
Japan
* The Japanese
National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology has deployed in 2018 26th July a XC50 to support the
ITER
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fusion project.
At deployment it will not be as fast as the Swiss
Piz Daint
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computer, however it is predicted to one of the top 30 supercomputers in the world, and the fastest available to fusion researchers.
* The
Japan Meteorological Agency is planning to deploy 2 Cray XC50s to help with
weather forecasting.
The systems will be deployed with the assistance of Cray and Hitachi.
* The
Center for Computational Astrophysics at the
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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have deployed a XC50 named ATERUI II,
named after a Japanese chief.
It has 40,200 Xeon cores, with a peak performance of 3.087 petaflops.
* The
Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) will install five XC50 cabinets and a 720TB Cray ClusterStor L300 for storage to gain insights on rail transportation. This is their third Cray machine after acquiring an
XC30 and CS300, both in 2013.
*
Yokohama City University has selected the air-cooled XC50-AC for life sciences research.
New Zealand
*
New Zealand Science Infrastructure
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(NeSI) is deploying a XC50 at their High Performance Computing Facility in Wellington.
South Korea
* The
Institute for Basic Science (IBS) is installing a 1.43-petaflop XC50, named Aleph, for climate physics research.
Switzerland
* The
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
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in
Lugano has a 361,760-core XC50 called
Piz Daint
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Name
The name was originally spelled ''Piz d'Aint'', which is Romansh for "inn ...
.
This has been upgraded from a
Cray XC30 and
Cray XC40 configurations.
United Kingdom
* Cray is developing a XC50 system with ARM processors called Isambard.
This will be used for a consortium of Bristol, Bath, Cardiff and Exeter universities.
References
External links
Cray XC Series Supercomputers
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