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Cray X1

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upgrade, which uses dual-core processors, allowing two quad-processor nodes to fit on a node board. The processors are also upgraded to 1150 MHz. This upgrade almost triples the peak performance per board, but reduces the per-processor memory and interconnect bandwidth. X1 and X1E boards can be
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per processor. Air-cooled models are available with up to 64 processors. Liquid-cooled systems scale to a theoretical maximum of 4096 processors, comprising 1024 shared-memory
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The X1 uses a 1.2 ns (800 MHz) clock cycle, and eight-wide vector pipes in MSP mode, offering a peak speed of 12.8
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architectures into a single machine. The X1 shares the multistreaming processors, vector caches, and
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design of the SV1, the highly scalable distributed memory design of the T3E, and the high
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The X1 can be programmed either with widely used message passing software like
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network, in 32 frames. Such a system would supply a peak speed of 50 
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since 2003. The X1 is often described as the unification of the
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The X1 is notable for its development being partly funded by
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NSA Secures Future of Cray SV2 With 5-Year Funding Deal
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
non-uniform memory access
vector processor
supercomputer
Cray Inc.
Cray T90
Cray SV1
Cray T3E
CMOS
memory
bandwidth
gigaflops
nodes
torus
teraflops
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
MPI
PVM
Unified Parallel C
Co-array Fortran
operating system
UNICOS/mp
SGI
IRIX
UNICOS
United States Government
National Security Agency
NSA Secures Future of Cray SV2 With 5-Year Funding Deal
Cray Inc. 10k-filing for December 31, 2005

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