Cray XC40

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XC40 cabinet (front) with 48 blades in groups of 16, each blade containing 4 nodes High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart HLRS 2015 04 Cray XC40 Hazel Hen blades.jpg
XC40 cabinet (front) with 48 blades in groups of 16, each blade containing 4 nodes

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. [1] The XC series supercomputers are available with the Cray DataWarp applications I/O accelerator technology. [2]

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Deployed systems

Australia

XC40 unit Magnus at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Kensington, Western Australia Supercomputer Magnus Left.jpg
XC40 unit Magnus at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Kensington, Western Australia

Finland

Germany

Cray XC40 "Hazel Hen" at the HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart HLRS 2015 10 Cray XC40 Hazel Hen.jpg
Cray XC40 "Hazel Hen" at the HLRS

India

Japan

The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have an XC40 system named "ATERUI". This is an upgrade from a previous Cray XC30 system. [9]

Poland

Saudi Arabia

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States

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