Cray XC50
| Company type | Supercomputer |
|---|---|
| Industry | High-performance computing |
| Predecessor | Cray XC40 |
| Founder | Cray |
| Products | Supercomputers (XC50 series) |
The Cray XC50 represents a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer engineered by Cray. It is compatible with Intel Xeon CPUs, Cavium ThunderX2, Xeon Phi, and NVIDIA Tesla P100 graphics processing units. These processors are interconnected through Cray's exclusive "Aries" interconnect, which utilizes a dragonfly network design. Building upon the XC40 platform, the XC50 primarily introduces support for Tesla P100 GPUs and operates on Cray's CLE software versions 6 or 7.
Australia
- The combined XC50 and CS500 systems are operated by the Bureau of Meteorology.
India
- The IIT Bombay has implemented a Cray XC50 system named Spacetime, achieving a peak performance of 1 petaflop, complemented by Cray ClusterStor L300 Lustre storage.
Japan
- In July 2018, the Japanese National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology commissioned an XC50 to aid the ITER fusion initiative. While its speed is surpassed by Switzerland's Piz Daint, it remains within the top 30 global supercomputers and is the leading system dedicated to fusion research.
- The Japan Meteorological Agency, with collaboration from Cray and Hitachi, intends to deploy two XC50 units for meteorological forecasting.
- Operating at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the Center for Computational Astrophysics manages ATERUI II, an XC50 boasting 40,200 Xeon cores and a peak capacity of 3.087 petaflops.
- The Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI) plans to install five XC50 cabinets alongside a 720 TB Cray ClusterStor L300 to support advancements in rail transport research. This follows their earlier acquisitions of an XC30 and CS300 in 2013.
- For life sciences investigations, Yokohama City University opted for the air-cooled XC50-AC model.
New Zealand
- At their High Performance Computing Facility in Wellington, New Zealand Science Infrastructure (NeSI) is deploying an XC50 system.
South Korea
- The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) is setting up Aleph, a 1.43-petaflop XC50 supercomputer dedicated to climate physics studies.
Switzerland
- The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano operates Piz Daint, a 361,760-core XC50 system upgraded from earlier Cray XC30 and XC40 platforms.
United Kingdom
- Cray is developing Isambard, an ARM-based XC50 system, for a consortium comprising Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, and Exeter universities.