Entry-Level HPC: Proven at a Petaflop, Affordably Priced!
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As a long time admirer of Cray I had to repost:
Computing needs at many commercial enterprises, research universities, and government labs continue to grow as more complex problems are explored using ever-more sophisticated modeling and analysis programs.
A new class of Cray XE6 and Cray XK6 high performance computing (HPC) systems, based on AMD Opteron™ processors, now offer teraFLOPS of processing power, reliability, utilization rates, and other advantages of high-end supercomputers, but with a great low purchase price. Entry-level supercomputing systems in this model line target midrange HPC applications, have an expected performance in the 6.5 teraflop to 200 teraFLOPS range, and scale in price from $200,000 to $3 million.
These systems can give organizations an alternative to high-end HPC clusters. One potential advantage of these entry-level systems is that they are designed to deliver supercomputing reliability and sustained performance. Users can be confident their jobs will run to completion. And the systems also offer predictability. “There is reduced OS noise, so you get similar run times every time,” said Margaret Williams, senior vice president of HPC Systems at Cray Inc.
Not enough to get you into “web scale” data but certainly enough for many semantic integration problems.