The Cray Returns

This week the new fastest and most powerful computer of the world is the NCCS's Jaguar, a big cluster build by Cray and AMD, with a 1.64 petaflops of peak capacity. This means the return of the king of super-computers, Cray Inc. who was the reference for many years of the most powerful systems for computing.


Now, with AMD build a cluster system (with Linux of course) and reclaim the Top 1.


The cabinets also looks cool:

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