Cray Launches New Cray XT5m Line of Midrange Supercomputers

By DE Editors

Cray Inc. has launched the Cray XT5m line of midrange supercomputers.

The CrayXT5m system incorporates a version of the Cray SeaStar network specially designed and optimized for systems with peak performance of less than 100 teraflops. This provides. Offered with up to six cabinets, the Cray XT5m series features Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and a Cray SeaStar-based 2D torus interconnect. The Cray Linux Environment enables the use of a range of open-source tools as well as streamlined porting of a broad set of applications from independent software vendors (ISVs).

The Cray XT5m supercomputer is a massively parallel processing (MPP) system that allows more organizations and users to have the potential to scale to petaflops performance and beyond.

“The new Cray XT5m product scales down Cray’s successful high-end Cray XT architecture to cover the entire supercomputer market segment that starts at $500,000, expanding Cray’s total addressable market in the process,” says Earl Joseph, IDC program vice president for HPC. “Cray now has an opportunity to benefit from both a larger addressable market and the projected growth in the complete supercomputer segment.”

The Cray XT5m series can be upgraded or expanded to take advantage of new technologies, such as next-generation compute processors,  including AMD’s upcoming Istanbul processors, I/O technologies, and interconnects as they become available. The new product is an extension of the Cray XT5 product line. Cray XT5m customers can upgrade to a Cray XT5 supercomputer if needed.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.