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The Cray XC40 is a

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supercomputer manufactured by Cray. It consists of

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Haswell

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, with optional

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Tesla or Intel

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accelerators, connected together by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, stored in air-cooled or liquid-cooled cabinets. The XC series supercomputers are available with the Cray DataWarp applications I/O accelerator technology.

Deployed systems

Australia

* The

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (PSC) is the government-supported high-performance computing national facility located in Perth, Western Australia. Pawsey supports researchers in Western Australia and across Australia through the Pawsey Centre ( ...

has a 35,712-core XC40 called "Magnus" for general science research. This supercomputer has a processing power of 1.097 petaflops. * The

Bureau of Meteorology The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas. It was established in 1906 under the Meteorology Act, and brought together ...

has a 51,840-core XC40 called "Australis" with 276 TB of RAM and a usable storage of 4.3 PB. The supercomputer with a peak performance of 1.6 petaflops provides the operational computing capability for weather, climate, ocean and wave numerical prediction and simulation.

Finland

* National IT center for science CSC computer "Sisu" was completed as XC40 in 2014. It has 40,512 cores with overall peak performance of 1,688 TFlops.

Germany

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(HLRS) has built a 185,088-core XC40 named "Hazel Hen" with a peak performance of 7420 TFlops.

India

* Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) at the

Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was ...

has an XC40 supercomputer named SahasraT, with 1,376 compute nodes (33,024 Intel Haswell Xeon cores), together with Intel Xeon Phi and NVIDIA K40 GPU accelerators. * Pratyush and Mihir are the supercomputers established at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune and National Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast (NCMRWF) respectively. Pratyush and Mihir are two High Performance Computing (HPC) units. They are located at two government institutes, one being 4.0 PetaFlops unit at IITM, Pune and another 2.8 PetaFlops unit at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida. Both units and provides a combined output of 6.8 PetaFlops.

Japan

The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have an XC40 system named "ATERUI". This is an upgrade from a previous

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system.

Poland

* Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling in Warsaw has an XC40 supercomputer named Okeanos with 1084 compute nodes (26,016 Intel Xeon cores) with 128 GB of RAM each.

Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; ar, جامعة الملك عبد الله للعلوم و التقنية ') is a private research university located in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2009, the university provid ...

(KAUST) has an XC40 named Shaheen. The processing power is 5.54 petaflops with 196,608 cores.

Sweden

* Royal Institute of Technology has a 53,632-core XC40 called "Beskow".

Switzerland

* The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in

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had a system in 2013 named Piz Dora, a Cray XC40 with 1256 compute nodes. This has been combined with the old Piz Daint system into the new

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Piz Daint.

United Kingdom

* The

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has three XC40s, with a total of 460,000

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s, capable of 14 petaflops peak. It is currently the fastest machine in the world dedicated to weather and climate modeling, and was the 11th fastest (but is no longer) on the

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list when it was installed.

United States

* The

United States Army Research Laboratory The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL) is the U.S. Army's foundational research laboratory. ARL is headquartered at the Adelphi Laboratory Center (ALC) in Adelphi, Maryland. Its largest sing ...

has an XC40 supercomputer called "Excalibur". This computer has 100,064 cores. * The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has an XC40 supercomputer called "Cori" with 76,416 Intel Haswell cores and 658,784 Xeon Phi Knights Landing cores. *

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has an XC40 supercomputer used for the processing of complex seismic data sets. * The

Bowie State University Bowie State University (Bowie State) is a public historically black university in Prince George's County, Maryland, north of Bowie. It is part of the University System of Maryland. Founded in 1865, Bowie State is Maryland's oldest historically ...

has an XC40 supercomputer called "Sphinx". This computer has 12,740 processing cores. *

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universi ...

has an XC40 supercomputer called "Big Red 3", with 22,464 processing cores. * Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has an XC40 supercomputer called "Theta".

References

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