Cray SV1ex supercomputer unveiled

Dallas 11 Nov 2000 Cray unveiled the Cray SV1ex supercomputer product line at SC2000, the annual high-performance computing conference. The new line strongly enhances the performance and price/performance of the current Cray SV1 series. The air-cooled Cray SV1ex vector systems are slated for availability in the first half of 2001, at U.S. list pricing from $700,000.

The Cray SV1ex multi-streaming vector processors are 50 percent faster at 7.2 Gflop/s each, sustained memory bandwidth effectively doubles to 40 gigabytes per second, cache latency improves by 50 percent, and maximum memory size jumps four-fold to 128 gigabytes--all without affecting industry-leading Cray SV1 reliability (MTTI) averaging more than one year between interrupts.

Cray SV1ex enhancements will roll out in two phases Enhancements scheduled for first-quarter 2001 include improved clock speed (450 MHz, 2.2 nanoseconds), improved cache, and field upgradeability for Cray SV1 and Cray J90 systems. Enhancements slated for second-quarter 2001 include a new memory subsystem (approximately 40 gigabytes/second), optional 32 GB or 96 GB SSD, and CPU and memory field upgradeability for Cray SV1 3000-series systems.

Cray SV1ex systems will be available with:

  • 8 to 32 processors, 32 gigabytes (GB) of main memory, and 32 to 96 GB of SSD memory. Groups of four 1.8-gigaflop processors can be run as a 7.2-gigaflop multi-streaming processor.
  • A powerful suite of clustering tools that allow multiple Cray SV1ex nodes to be combined to form terascale superclusters of up to 1,024 processors (1.8 teraflops).
  • The company's fifth-generation CMOS architecture (0.12 micron copper), SDRAM DIMM and FPGA (field-programmable gate array) technologies.
  • The Cray library of supercomputer applications and tenth-generation UNICOS (UNIX) operating system.
  • The ability to run Cray SV1, Cray J90, Cray C90 codes, including autotasked codes, without modification or recompiling.
  • Support for standard PVM, MPI, SHMEM, Autotasking, OpenMP programming models.

The Cray SV1ex product line will be succeeded by the Cray SV2 supercomputer series due out in the second half of 2002.

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