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Cray XC50

The Cray XC50 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by Cray. The machine can support Intel Xeon processors, as well as Cavium ThunderX2 processors, Xeon Phi processors and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs. The processors are connected by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, in a dragonfly network topology. 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.

Deployed Cray XC50 systems
Australia Bureau of Meteorology deployed a combined XC50 and CS500 platform. 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. 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. • Yokohama City University has selected the air-cooled XC50-AC for life sciences research. • The Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) is installing a 1.56-petaflop XC50, named KAIROS, for Fusion plasma physics research. Switzerland • The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano has a 361,760-core XC50 called Piz Daint. This has been upgraded from a Cray XC30 and Cray XC40 configurations. United Kingdom • Cray is developing a XC50 system with ARM processors called Isambard. This will be used for a consortium of Bristol, Bath, Cardiff and Exeter universities. ==References==
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