The Cray XT3 is a distributed memory massively parallel MIMD supercomputer designed by Cray Inc. with Sandia National Laboratories under the codename Red Storm . Cray turned the design into a commercial product in 2004. The XT3 derives much of its architecture from the previous Cray T3E system, and also from the Intel ASCI Red supercomputer.
5-511: The Cray XT4 (codenamed Hood during development) is an updated version of the Cray XT3 supercomputer . It was released on November 18, 2006. It includes an updated version of the SeaStar interconnect router called SeaStar2 , processor sockets for Socket AM2 Opteron processors, and 240-pin unbuffered DDR2 memory. The XT4 also includes support for FPGA coprocessors that plug into riser cards in
10-424: A custom " SeaStar " communications chip, and between 1 and 8 GB of RAM . The PowerPC 440 based SeaStar device provides a 6.4 gigabyte per second connection to the processor across HyperTransport , as well as six 8-gigabyte per second links to neighboring PEs. The PEs are arranged in a 3-dimensional torus topology, with 96 PEs in each cabinet. The XT3 runs an operating system called UNICOS/lc that partitions
15-557: The Service and IO blades. The interconnect, cabinet, system software and programming environment remain unchanged from the Cray XT3 . It was superseded in 2007 by the Cray XT5 . This supercomputer-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cray XT3 The XT3 consists of between 192 and 32,768 processing elements (PEs), where each PE comprises a 2.4 or 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron processor with up to two cores ,
20-472: The full version of SuSE Linux and are used for interactive logins, systems management, application compiling and job launch. I/O PEs use physically distinct hardware, in that the node boards include PCI-X slots for connections to Ethernet and Fibre Channel networks. Though the performance of each XT3 model will vary with the speed and number of processors installed, the November 2007 Top500 results for
25-694: The machine into three sections, the largest comprising the Compute nodes , and two smaller sections for Service nodes and IO nodes . In UNICOS/lc 1.x, the Compute PEs run a Sandia developed microkernel called Catamount, which is descended from the SUNMOS OS of the Intel Paragon ; in UNICOS/lc 2.0, Catamount was replaced by a specially tuned version of Linux called Compute Node Linux (CNL). Service and IO PEs run
#668331