The Cray XC30 is a massively parallel
multiprocessorsupercomputer manufactured by
Cray. It consists of
IntelXeonprocessors, with optional
NvidiaTesla or
Xeon Phi accelerators, connected together by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, stored in air-cooled or liquid-cooled cabinets.[1] Each liquid-cooled cabinet can contain up to 48 blades,[2] each with eight
CPU sockets, and uses 90 kW of power.[3] The XC series supercomputers are available with the Cray DataWarp applications
I/O accelerator technology.[4]
In 2014, the Cray XC30 systems appear prominently on the
TOP500 supercomputer lists.[5]
Deployed Cray XC30 systems
Europe
The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology has a XC30 system. The system has a four year budget of SEK 170 million.[6]
The UK's national high-performance computing facility in Edinburgh has a 118,080-core XC30 called "ARCHER,"[7] which cost £43 million.[8]
The US Naval Academy has an XC30 hosted at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, named "Grace" after Rear Admiral
Grace Hopper.[17]
Australia
The
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has a 9,440-core XC30 called "Galaxy." One chassis of this contains GPUs; the rest is all-CPU. Its November 2013 and June 2014, TOP500 entries were before the GPU chassis was installed. This system is used for radio astronomy.[18]