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The Cray XC50 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by Cray. [1] The machine can support Intel Xeon processors, as well as Cavium ThunderX2 processors, Xeon Phi processors and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs. [2] The processors are connected by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, in a dragonfly network topology. [1] 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. [3]

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Deployed Cray XC50 systems

Australia

India

Japan

New Zealand

South Korea

Switzerland

United Kingdom

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