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The Cray XC50 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by Cray.[1] The machine can support Intel Xeon processors, as well as Cavium ThunderX2 processors, Xeon Phi processors and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs.[2] The processors are connected by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, in a dragonfly network topology.[1] The XC50 is an evolution of the XC40, with the main difference being the support of Tesla P100 processors and the use of Cray software release CLE 6 or 7.[3]
Australia
- Bureau of Meteorology deployed a combined XC50 and CS500 platform. [4]
India
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) has deployed a Cray XC50 system named Spacetime with a peak performance of 1 petaflops coupled with Cray ClusterStor L300 Lustre storage system.[5]
Japan
- The Japanese National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology has deployed on 2018 26th July a XC50 to support the ITER fusion project.[6] At deployment, it will not be as fast as the Swiss Piz Daint computer; however, it is predicted as one of the top 30 supercomputers in the world, and the fastest available to fusion researchers.[6]
- The Japan Meteorological Agency is planning to deploy 2 Cray XC50s to help with weather forecasting.[7] The systems will be deployed with the assistance of Cray and Hitachi.
- The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have deployed a XC50 named ATERUI II, named after a Japanese chief.[8][9][10] It has 40,200 Xeon cores, with a peak performance of 3.087 petaflops.[9][11]
- The Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) will install five XC50 cabinets and a 720 TB Cray ClusterStor L300 for storage to gain insights on rail transportation. This is their third Cray machine after acquiring an XC30 and CS300, both in 2013.[12]
- Yokohama City University has selected the air-cooled XC50-AC for life sciences research.[13]
New Zealand
- New Zealand Science Infrastructure (NeSI) is deploying a XC50 at their High Performance Computing Facility in Wellington.[14]
South Korea
- The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) is installing a 1.43-petaflop XC50, named Aleph, for climate physics research.[15][12][16][17]
Switzerland
United Kingdom
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