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Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer

Posted by Unknown on from the runs-quake-at-ten-billion-fps dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Supercomputer giant Cray has lifted the lid on its first GPU offering, bringing it into the realm of top supers like the Chinese Tianhe-1A" The machine consists of racks of blades, each with eight GPU and CPU pairs (that can even be installed into older machines). It looks like Cray delayed the release of hardware using GPUs to work on a higher level programming environment than is available from other vendors.

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  1. Re:Chinese computer dick waving by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You would be right except that their are applications that do require the performance.
    You can never have too much computing power for some applications like climate modeling. So what is your point?

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