<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Prentice Bisbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prentice.bisbal@rutgers.edu" target="_blank">prentice.bisbal@rutgers.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 10/03/2015 01:54 PM, Nathan Pimental wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Very nice article. Are cray computers still made,
and how popular are they? How pricey are they? :)<br>
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Yes, Argonne National Lab (ANL) announced in April it will purchase
a large Cray system as part of the CORAL intitative at a price of
$200 million. Expected performance is 180 PFLOPs. <br>
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<a href="https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora" target="_blank">https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora</a><br>
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Interesting, ANL has long been an IBM shop (Intrepid, Mira) and ORNL
has been a Cray shop (Jaguar, Titan) but that's switching with the
CORAL purchases. I guess they want to keep their admins and
developers on their toes. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Clearly, the admins would have kept things the same. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>What did not change for either lab is the hardware model. ORNL's Titan is a heterogeneous system with CPUs and GPUs while ANL's Mira is a homogeneous system. ORNL's Summit will have CPUs and GPUs and ANL's Aurora will have a homogeneous, many-core processor.</div><div> </div></div></div></div>