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The Cray XT3 supercomputer is a large-scale Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) supercomputer from Cray Inc. The design for the Cray XT3 is based on the Red Storm supercomputing system which was designed in cooperation with Sandia National Laboratory (Sandia). The system was announced in November of 2004. Subsequent products have included the Cray XT4, Cray XT5, and Cray XT6 supercomputers, each based on successive versions of AMD Opteron processor, but essentially retaining the basic Cray XT3 architecture. The Cray XT series of supercomputers has proven to be a very successful product line, selling over 1,500 cabinets in a 5-year period.
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In 2001, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) set aside funding for Sandia to obtain a new high-end computational capability to address mission needs. Sandia sent out a Request for...
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Brooks, J., Kirschner, G. (2011). Cray XT3 and Cray XT Series of Supercomputers. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_305
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