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The XK6, announced on Tuesday, is made up of multiple supercomputer blade servers. Each blade includes up to four compute nodes containing AMD Opteron CPUs and Nvidia Tesla-architecture GPUs. It marks Cray's first attempt to blend dedicated GPUs and CPUs in a single high-performance computing (HPC) system.
"Cray has a long history of working with accelerators in our vector technologies," Barry Bolding, vice president of Cray's product division, said in a statement. "We are leveraging this expertise to create a scalable hybrid supercomputer — and the associated first-generation of a unified x86/GPU programming environment — that will allow the system to more productively meet the scientific challenges of today and tomorrow."