Cray Unveils XC30 Supercomputer 67
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from the show-us-the-sheets dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes "Cray has unveiled a XC30 supercomputer capable of high-performance computing workloads of more than 100 petaflops. Originally code-named 'Cascade,' the system relies on Intel Xeon processors and Aries interconnect chipset technology, paired with Cray's integrated software environment. Cray touts the XC30's ability to utilize a wide variety of processor types; future versions of the platform will apparently feature Intel Xeon Phi and Nvidia Tesla GPUs based on the Kepler GPU computing architecture. Cray leveraged its work with DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems program in order to design and build the XC30. Cray's XC30 isn't the only supercomputer aiming for that 100-petaflop crown. China's Guangzhou Supercomputing Center recently announced the development of a Tianhe-2 supercomputer theoretically capable of 100 petaflops, but that system isn't due to launch until 2015. Cray also faces significant competition in the realm of super-computer makers: it only built 5.4 percent of the systems on the Top500 list, compared to IBM with 42.6 percent and Hewlett-Packard with 27.6 percent."
Re:MORE CRAY PR0N! (Score:4, Interesting)
How about Cray T90 - looking like something out of David Lynch's Dune:
http://www.craywiki.com/images/f/fb/T916.jpg [craywiki.com]
now THAT was a computer any CEO was proud to show to visitors.
Not a row of boring cabinets.
Re:On your desktop in 11 years (Score:5, Interesting)
Supercomputers measure double precision FLOPS while the GPGPU vendor cheat and report single precision.
Ah, OK, Radeon is then 1 TFlop [rpi.edu] for double precision (which is new to the Radeon). So four Radeon 7970's beat the top 1999 supercomputer.