Cray's new XC50 supercomputer!

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In this world, we have broadly two  kinds of people,  "high tech" , and "low tech" . But I belong to the third kind "No tech" But I love tech, so here is the latest Cray Inc super computer.

 

Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington founded in1972; 44 years ago.It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. Several Cray supercomputer systems are listed in the TOP500, which ranks the most powerful supercomputers in the world . 

At the recent 2016 Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, Cray Inc.launched the Cray XC50 supercomputer - the company's fastest supercomputer ever with a peak performance of one petaflop (a measure of a computer's processing speed and can be expressed as a quadrillion (thousand trillion) floating point operations per second (FLOPS) in a single cabinet.

As per Cray Inc 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; and 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. 

These high-performance systems  can help with the hardest of advanced computational tasks, like weather system simulation, quantum chemistry and even simulating the activity of organic brains at low levels. I’s also increasingly being used in AI, for deep learning applications, which are increasingly used for  advanced research, and for the next wave in consumer services, as well.

Cray Inc said computing applications are evolving to include more deep learning algorithms, and with this evolution, the uses for GPUs in their systems are increasing, enabling customers to use new analytics techniques to gain insight from increasingly large and complex data .

The first XC50 installation will be at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, where it will be and upgrade of the facility’s existing XC30 supercomputer

Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Shulthess, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) said that the new Cray XC50 supercomputer will significantly accelerate their computational research capabilities allowing users to perform more advanced, data-intensive simulations, visualizations and data analyses across a wide array of scientific studies.

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