Cray Shows Off New AMD-Powered XE6 Supercomputer

[god_43]

At its annual users conference, supercomputer vendor Cray unveiled the XE6 supercomputer, formerly codenamed Baker, which will start shipping in the third quarter. The XE6 features AMD’s Opteron 6100 “Magny-Cours” processors and a new interconnect, Gemini, that will offer tremendous improvement in messaging rates and a three-fold reduction in latency. Cray already has more than $200 million in contracts for the XE6, which can scale to more than 1 million cores.


http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Cray-Shows-Off-New-AMDPowered-XE6-Supercomputer-288259/



want! :shocked:

[EnJoY]

I want Gemini!

[Movieman]

and here I am all excited that this is arriving Friday!:rofl:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131643

[god_43]

and here I am all excited that this is arriving Friday!:rofl:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131643

oooo, geez 400+ for a mobo, yes i know why...but still!

[Movieman]

oooo, geez 400+ for a mobo, yes i know why...but still!

Really isn't that much for a MB in todays market..
The quad socket versions are over $900.00

[tool_462]

Really isn't that much for a MB in todays market..
The quad socket versions are over $900.00

Is that...

OVER 9000 DIMES!?!?!??

[snoro]

and here I am all excited that this is arriving Friday!:rofl:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131643

Dave using a asus server motherboard, how god. I think i need to talk to your mom a little bit to learn you that you shall never ever buy a asus server motherboard. Give me one day and i get you instead a supermicro one.

[skycrane]

did i here someone say Quad socket ???? i WANT ONE..

[metalop1g]

http://www.spikynorman.dsl.pipex.com/CrayWWWStuff/Cfaqp1.html

pretty good reading about the early cray supercomputers!

[Power5]

Wow, up to 1 million cores is 83k 12 core CPUs. That is just insane. They say they are shipping to a nuclear research center, I hope it will be nuclear powered.

[wuttz]

i have a 1P supermicro.
i feel so small. :rofl:

http://www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/download/file.php?id=629

[MrMojoZ]

i have a 1P supermicro.
i feel so small. :rofl:

But your sockets are large, thats where it counts. ;)

[Movieman]

i have a 1P supermicro.
i feel so small. :rofl:

http://www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/download/file.php?id=629

Is that what they call "Socket envy"?:rofl:

[Lightman]

I'm looking forward to next years TOP500 list :D

BTW I'm glad we will finally see some results from you Dave :up:

Friday then! I will give you an extra day to get familiar with new setup and then no excuse will be granted - only results! :yepp:

[wuttz]

it's gonna be a green weekend!?! :D:D:D
i'm looking forward to seeing the completed build!

[Movieman]

I'm looking forward to next years TOP500 list :D

BTW I'm glad we will finally see some results from you Dave :up:

Friday then! I will give you an extra day to get familiar with new setup and then no excuse will be granted - only results! :yepp:

heatsinks arrive today,board arrives tomorrow so make it Saturday not Friday.

[Starscream]

But your sockets are large, thats where it counts. ;)

So size does matter :(

[Chrono Detector]

I wish I had a motherboard that supports quad channel memory, that would be pure win. 8 DIMM sockets = WIN

[Dimitriman]

Let's see 8334 processors on quad socket boards that's 2084 boards and you can please equip them with 2084 Radeon 5870 in X-Fire mode and ship it by Fed-Ex Overnight to my Ranch.

thanks.

[aiaN]

I seriously ended up on the floor laughing my ass off.... If you push the news link you see that the first one to comment the gemini say:

"1000000 cores
Yeah, but will it run Crysis ?" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[JF-AMD]

I seriously ended up on the floor laughing my ass off.... If you push the news link you see that the first one to comment the gemini say:

"1000000 cores
Yeah, but will it run Crysis ?" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It runs it so fast that you are killed and the game is over before you even blink.

[Wiggy McShades]

It runs it so fast that you are killed and the game is over before you even blink.

you should pull some strings at cray and get them to make a giant larrabee style gpu out of this thing.

[JF-AMD]

The challenge I see with Larabee is that it is using x86-style technology to try to solve GPU-style problems. All the x86 cores in the world won't help that. I am sure that there will be places that it can shine, but in my mind they are solving the problem in the wrong way. But, then again, we all have our different opinions.

[Manicdan]

The challenge I see with Larabee is that it is using x86-style technology to try to solve GPU-style problems. All the x86 cores in the world won't help that. I am sure that there will be places that it can shine, but in my mind they are solving the problem in the wrong way. But, then again, we all have our different opinions.

you better have different opinions, otherwise it will be the clone wars all over again

[AliG]

Is that...

OVER 9000 DIMES!?!?!??

Dragonball Z ftw!

[Wiggy McShades]

The challenge I see with Larabee is that it is using x86-style technology to try to solve GPU-style problems. All the x86 cores in the world won't help that. I am sure that there will be places that it can shine, but in my mind they are solving the problem in the wrong way. But, then again, we all have our different opinions.


I was posting that jokingly :p:. I just think it'd be realy interesting to see what can be done with a million corse :shocked:

[JF-AMD]

you better have different opinions, otherwise it will be the clone wars all over again

I have plenty of opinions, but I try to keep them in check.