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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. That's nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But does it run Windows?

  2. Just imagine... by aardwolf204 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these 12-way Operton super computers. That would almost be enough computing power to run spell check!

    Sorry, had to say it

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  3. Yes, but by hkb · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, but does it run Linu....oh it does.

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  4. Pakistan by clinko · · Score: -1, Troll

    The company also announced the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service is a Cray XD1 customer, which adds to an impressive list of early users, including the Ohio Supercomputer Center, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Germany's Helmut Schmidt University and the SAHA Institute of Nuclear Physics (Calcutta, India).


    Soon to be added: Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Physics

  5. BS detector by spinlocked · · Score: 0, Troll

    Feel free to use my hardware company marketing BS detector:

    #!/bin/sh
    # BS detector
    grep "high bandwidth, low latency"

    Works every time, or your money back.

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    # init 5
    Connection closed.

    Oh... ...bugger.