Cray claims its new high-performance computing (HPC) system is
capable of workloads of more than 100 petaflops. Cray’s
rendering of the XC30 supercomputer, formerly codenamed
“Cascade.” Cray has unveiled a XC30 supercomputer capable of
high-performance computing (HPC) 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.
Specifically, the XC30 will rely on processors from the Intel
Xeon E5-2600 family, with the ability to scale up to one million
cores per system. 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. The cooling
array relies on traverse airflow to lower system temperature. On
the software side of the equation, the Cray Linux Environment
supports a variety of ISV (independent softwa