Person walking between Hopper Cray XE6 racks

The Cray XE6 (

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during development: ''Baker)'' made by

Cray Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. Several Cray supercomputer systems are listed ...

is an enhanced version of the

Cray XT6 The Cray XT6 is an updated version of the Cray XT5 supercomputer, launched on 16 November 2009. The dual- or quad-core AMD Opteron 2000-series processors of the XT5 are replaced in the XT6 with eight- or 12-core Opteron 6100 processors, giving up ...

supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

, officially announced on 25 May 2010. The XE6 uses the same computer

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found in the XT6, with eight- or 12-core

Opteron Opteron is AMD's x86 former server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor which supported the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64 or AMD64). It was released on April 22, 2003, with the ''Sledg ...

6100 processors giving up to 3,072 cores per cabinet, but replaces the SeaStar2+ interconnect router used in the

Cray XT5 The Cray XT5 is an updated version of the Cray XT4 supercomputer, launched on November 6, 2007. It includes a faster version of the XT4's SeaStar2 interconnect router called SeaStar2+, and can be configured either with XT4 compute blades, which ...

and XT6 with the faster and more scalable ''Gemini'' router ASIC. This is used to provide a 3-dimensional torus network topology between nodes. Each XE6 node has two processor sockets and either 32 or 64 GB of

DDR3 SDRAM Double Data Rate 3 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR3 SDRAM) is a type of synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) with a high bandwidth (" double data rate") interface, and has been in use since 2007. It is the higher-speed ...

memory. Two nodes share one Gemini router ASIC. The XE6 runs the Cray Linux Environment version 3. This incorporates

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and Cray's Compute Node Linux.

References

External links

Cray XE6 product page
Xe6 X86 supercomputers {{super-compu-stub