Apparently there is a race among the super duper elite super computer class, and the record has been smashed yet again. Cray is launching a new “humble” supercomputer namely the Cray XK6.

The highly anticipated new supercomputer will combine Cray’s Gemini interconnect, AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors (code-named “Interlagos”) and Nvidia Tesla 20-Series GPUs to create a tightly-integrated supercomputing system upgradeable to more than 50 petaflops (quadrillions of operations/second) of compute power.

Upgradeable from Cray XT4, Cray XT5, Cray XT6 or Cray XE6 systems, the Cray XK6 system is expected to be available in the second half of 2011. It can be configured in a single cabinet with tens of compute nodes, to a multi-cabinet system with tens of thousands of compute nodes.

The first customer inline for the a brand new Cray XK6 supercomputer is the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Manno, which develops and promotes technical and scientific services for the Swiss research community in the field of HPC.

SOURCE via Cray