Cray has launched XE6 supercomputer that combines the company’s new Gemini interconnect with AMD Opteron processors to bring production petascale computing to high performance computing (HPC) users.
The company said that the in-build Gemini interconnect is designed to fundamentally change and improve how Cray supercomputers move data across the system. It is designed to support multi-core processors with a 100-fold improvement in messaging rates and a three-fold reduction in latency and also includes hardware support for a global user address space.
Cray said that its XE6 supercomputer is upgradeable from a XT5 and XT6 system. It features enhancements such as an improved network resiliency, a mature software ecosystem and the third version of the Cray Linux Environment.
Barry Bolding, vice president of scalable systems at Cray, said: With the new Gemini interconnect, we are putting the final piece of the puzzle in place.
“We provide a ‘green,’ flexible and datacentre-friendly infrastructure featuring our optional ECOphlex cooling technology; we provide an adaptive software environment with the latest version of our Cray Linux Environment; and with the Gemini interconnect we will provide the scalable network to meet the demands of a petascale environment. The Cray XE6 system is the production supercomputer designed for the multi-core era.
The XE6 supercomputer is expected to be available early in the third quarter of 2010.
