Cray has fittingly decided to release a little more lite information about its supercomputer project after that the new Top500 list was made available to the public. We’ve earlier reported about Cray’s plans for creating a super computer with a Linpack performance of 1 PFlop/s (Petaflops) by using AMD’s coming Quad-core Opteron processors. The platform which will be used for this supercomputer, ordered by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the BlackWidow platform, which Cray how has announced will become available already next year. Then only in smaller configurations but earlier information spoke of a launch of the Petaflop system in 2008. A system that then would be three times faster than IBM’s BlueGene/L system.
“Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAYD) today announced that the company’s next-generation vector high-performance computing system is scheduled for general availability in the second half of 2007. Code-named “BlackWidow,” the new system is part of an evolving heterogeneous processing capability that is the centerpiece of Cray’s Adaptive Supercomputing vision.”
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