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Cray XC40

The Cray XC40 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by Cray. It consists of Intel Haswell Xeon processors, with optional NVIDIA Tesla or Intel Xeon Phi accelerators, connected together by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, stored in air-cooled or liquid-cooled cabinets. The XC series supercomputers are available with the Cray DataWarp applications I/O accelerator technology.

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Australia

  • The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has a 35,712-core XC40 called "Magnus" for general science research. This supercomputer has a processing power of 1.097 petaflops

    • Finland

  • National IT center for science CSC computer "Sisu" was completed as XC40 in 2014. It has 40,512 cores with overall peak performance of 1,688 TFlops.

    • Germany

  • High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) has built a 185,088-core XC40 named "Hazel Hen" with a peak performance of 7420 TFlops.

    • India

  • Supercomputer Education and Research Center (SERC) at the Indian Institute of Science has an XC40 supercomputer named SahasraT, with 1,376 compute nodes (33,024 Intel Haswell Xeon cores), together with Intel Xeon Phi and NVIDIA K40 GPU accelerators.

    • Poland

  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling in Warsaw has an XC40 supercomputer named Okeanos with 1084 compute nodes (26016 Intel Xeon cores) with 128 GB of RAM each.

    • Saudi Arabia

  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has an XC40 named Shaheen. The processing power is 5.54 petaflops with 196,608 cores.

    • Sweden

  • Royal Institute of Technology has a 53,632-core XC40 called "Beskow."

    • United Kingdom

  • The UK Met Office has selected the XC40 for its new supercomputer. The estimated processing power will be 16 petaflops with 480,000 CPUs.

    • United States

  • The United States Army Research Laboratory has an XC40 supercomputer called "Excalibur." This computer has 100,064 cores.
  • The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has a XC40 supercomputer called "Cori"
  • Petroleum Geo-Services has an XC40 supercomputer used for the processing of complex seismic data sets.

    • References

    Cray XC40 Wikipedia
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