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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by jwr on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:15PM (#14317186)
No, not quite — their interconnects are very impressive. It's true that they don't make CPUs anymore, but that stopped making sense a long time ago. If you want to be a supercomputer company these days the value is in the interconnect and software.
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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by inopinatus on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:14PM (#14319114)
Surely also in the cooling systems. I remember on my visits to the Edinburgh supercomputing center, the quip was that Cray were a refrigeration company first. Like Tesla is a battery manufacturer.
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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by gbrown_ on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:46PM (#14319361)
That will have been for HECToR, an old XE system. They use the ECOphlex system which is a liquid evaporative phase-change cooling system using tetrafluoroethane.

The current XC line of supercomputers from Cray utilize more conventional cooling methods.

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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by inopinatus on Friday May 12, 2017 @07:46AM (#14323103)
Oh, this was much further back. The last time I set foot in the JCMB was around 1996. I think the main workhorses of the day were a Cray T3D/T3E. ISTR there was a Y-MP in there as well.
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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by jabl on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:27PM (#14318327)
Cray sold their interconnect IP to Intel a few years ago. But yeah, Aries is impressive.
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Re:Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers by wmf on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:56PM (#14318094)
But most Cray systems, like the ones in this article, don't use Cray interconnects.
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