The Cray XC50 supercomputer is engineered to address the broad application performance challenges of today’s most demanding high performance computing (HPC) users. The Cray XC50 accelerated GPU supercomputer combines the performance of NVIDIA’s latest Tesla P100 PCIe GPUs with Cray’s Aries network and high-performance software environment. It’s our fastest system with peak performance of 500 PF, and 1 PF in a single cabinet. Photo courtesy of Cray

Seattle, USA – December 10, 2016

Cray XC series supercomputers are designed to handle the most challenging workloads requiring sustained multi-petaflop performance.

They incorporate the Cray Aries™ high performance network interconnect for low latency and scalable global bandwidth, as well as the latest Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors and NVIDIA® Tesla® GPU accelerators.

Peter J. Ungaro, Cray’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Photo courtesy of Cray

The XC series delivers on Cray's commitment to performance supercomputing with an architecture that provides extreme scalability and sustained performance.

• The Cray® XC50™ accelerated GPU supercomputer combines the performance of NVIDIA’s latest Tesla® P100 PCIe GPUs with Cray’s Aries network and high-performance software environment. It’s our fastest system with peak performance of 500 PF, and 1 PF in a single cabinet.

• The Cray® XC40™ system offers the combined advantages of the Aries interconnect and Dragonfly network topology, multi-core and many-core processors, integrated I/O acceleration options and Cray OS and programming environment, delivering up to 100 PF sustained system performance. It’s designed for production supercomputing and user productivity.

• The Cray XC40-AC air-cooled model has smaller, less dense supercomputing cabinets with no requirement for liquid coolants or extra blower cabinets. A reduced network topology lowers costs, and the system is compatible with the compute technology, OS, ISV and software stack support of high-end XC40 systems.

The Cray XC40 system offers the combined advantages of the Aries interconnect and Dragonfly network topology, multi-core and many-core processors, integrated I/O acceleration options and Cray OS and programming environment, delivering up to 100 PF sustained system performance. It’s designed for production supercomputing and user productivity. Photo courtesy of Cray

Cray Launches Next-Generation Supercomputer


• Cray® XC50™ System Delivers One Petaflop of Peak Performance in a Single Cabinet

Seattle and Salt Lake City, USA - November 14, 2016 

At the 2016 Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced the launch of the Cray® XC50™ supercomputer – the company’s fastest supercomputer ever with a peak performance of one petaflop in a single cabinet.

The Cray XC50 supercomputer is engineered to address the broad application performance challenges of today’s most demanding high performance computing (HPC) users.

Photo courtesy of Cray

Special features of the Cray XC50 supercomputer include:

• the industry-leading Aries network interconnect, which is designed specifically to meet the performance requirements seen in today’s emerging class of data center GPU accelerated applications, where high node-to-node communication performance is critical;

• a Dragonfly network topology tightly integrated with Aries that reduces communication latency for scale-out applications that rely heavily on the Message Passing Interface;

• optional SSD-enabled DataWarp™ I/O accelerator technology, enabling software-defined provisioning of application data for improved performance;

• innovative cooling systems to lower customers’ total cost of ownership;

• the next-generation of the high performance and tightly integrated Cray Linux Environment that supports a wide range of applications;

• image-based systems management for easy upgrades, less downtime, and field-tested large-scale system deployment;

• enhancements to Cray’s HPC optimized programming environment for improved  performance and  programmability of GPU environments;

• support for the NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerator as well as support for next-generation Intel® Xeon® and Intel Xeon Phi™ processors.

Ryan Waite, Cray’s Senior Vice President of Products. Photo courtesy of Cray

“Supercomputing applications are evolving to include more deep learning algorithms, and with this evolution, the uses for GPUs in our systems are increasing, enabling our customers to use new analytics techniques to gain insight from increasingly large and complex data,” said Ryan Waite, Cray’s senior vice president of products.
“The new Cray XC50 system represents a major advancement in our supercomputing capabilities. It provides the highest performance density of any Cray supercomputer, and gives customers the computational resources they need to take on larger, more complex workloads, as well as the next generation of scientific challenges.”

The Cray XC30 supercomputer “Piz Daint” at CSCS in Lugano, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of CSCS

Located in Lugano, Switzerland, CSCS is currently upgrading its Cray XC30™ supercomputer nick-named “Piz Daint” to a Cray XC50 system, and will combine it with the Centre’s Cray XC40™ supercomputer nick-named “Piz Dora”.

Once completed, the combined system will adopt the Piz Daint name and will be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.

Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Shulthess, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Photo courtesy of CSCS

“Our new Cray XC50 supercomputer will significantly accelerate our computational research capabilities allowing our users to perform more advanced, data-intensive simulations, visualizations and data analyses across a wide array of scientific studies,” said Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Shulthess, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).
“Cray’s next-generation supercomputer and its continued integration of GPU acceleration has created a powerful and efficient hybrid multi-core system for addressing our current and future HPC workloads.”

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For more information on the Cray XC50 supercomputer, please visit the Cray website at www.cray.com .


About Cray Inc.

Global supercomputing leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics challenges.

Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled performance, efficiency and scalability.

Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative next-generation products that integrate diverse processing technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance.

Go to www.cray.com  for more information.


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