The 20,000 core Cray XT4 supercomputer known as ‘Franklin’ has been formally accepted by NERSC. The key question for XT installations appears to be ‘what colour doors on the racks?’ – in this case blue with yellow stripes. The press release from NERSC can be found here.
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This whitepaper from our friends over at Bright Computing discusses how hybrid cloud infrastructures allow organizations to strategically manage their compute requirements from core data center to public cloud and edge, but they are very complex to build and manage. Automation is essential, and verifying your staff’s abilities to work with your tool of choice is mandatory.
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[…] The researchers set a performance record of 8.8 teraflops running on 12,090 processors from the newly installed Cray XT4 named “Franklin” at LBNL. They also set a record for “parallelism” […]