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Cray XD1 Now Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-small-country-that-has-everything dept.

cyngus writes "Cray announced the availability of their XD1 systems. Each XD1 chassis has up to 12 AMD Operton processors. Up to 12 chassis can be clustered together in a rack. The XD1 uses Cray RapidArray Interconnect technology, based on HyperTransport, for high bandwidth and low latency communications between processors and chassises. The XD1 also has a handful of other technologies aimed at the HPC market, including Xilinx FPGAs, communications accelerators, etc."

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  1. long time no news... by mirko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since they had been bought by SGI, I've actually been wondering whether they would make me dream again.

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  2. Re:Not the top end by visgoth · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I'd say that the fastest computers will always be fucking huge. If engineers could somehow magically fit the total power of the Earth Simulator into a single 1u chassis, people would still cluster a few hundred of them together. There's no such thing as enough processing power, as people always find a way to utilize it.

    (commence snide comments about the next windows release... now :) )

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