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It's more a brand name at this point - like "Westinghouse" items sold at Target.
by pinewurst 10y ago
It's more a brand name at this point - like "Westinghouse" items sold at Target.
- jwr 10y agoNo, not quite — their interconnects are very impressive. It's true that they don't make CPUs anymore, but that stopped making sense a long time ago. If you want to be a supercomputer company these days the value is in the interconnect and software.
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- wmf 10y agoBut most Cray systems, like the ones in this article, don't use Cray interconnects.
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- jabl 10y agoCray sold their interconnect IP to Intel a few years ago. But yeah, Aries is impressive.
- inopinatus 10y agoSurely also in the cooling systems. I remember on my visits to the Edinburgh supercomputing center, the quip was that Cray were a refrigeration company first. Like Tesla is a battery manufacturer.
- gbrown_ 10y agoThat will have been for HECToR, an old XE system. They use the ECOphlex system which is a liquid evaporative phase-change cooling system using tetrafluoroethane. The current XC line of supercomputers from Cray utilize more conventional cooling methods.
- inopinatus 10y agoOh, this was much further back. The last time I set foot in the JCMB was around 1996. I think the main workhorses of the day were a Cray T3D/T3E. ISTR there was a Y-MP in there as well.
- kappel 10y agoSure, 4 of the Top 10 systems in the Top500, but it's just a brand name at this point... /s
- coffeeops 10y agoTheir XC-series systems with Aries interconnect are very solid and dense systems. Even without their special interconnect and system management software, their software stack for developers and users is very mature and well supported by some of the best in the industry.
- redwall_hp 10y agoWestinghouse is still a big name in the nuclear industry...