Friday, October 04, 2013

Cray Achieves Goal of a Unified, Processor Agnostic Architecture for Supercomputers


Cray has added Intel coprocessors and graphics accelerators from Nvidia to its XC30 supercomputers, in the latest step in its 7-year-old Adaptive Supercomputing initiative.

The initiative, introduced in 2006, was launched to create a unified supercomputer architecture that can support a range of processing technologies. The introduction of support for Intel’s Xeon Phi coprocessors and Nvidia’s Tesla K20X GPU accelerators fits in with that effort, according to Peg Williams, senior vice president of high performance computing systems at Cray.

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