Cloud Computing: Cray’s latest supercomputer runs OpenStack and open source big data tools
August 22, 2016
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Ron Miller.
Cray has always been associated with speed and power and its latest computing beast called the Cray Urika-GX system has been designed specifically for big data workloads. What’s more, it runs on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform and supports open source big data processing tools like Hadoop and Spark.
Cray recognizes that the computing world had evolved since Seymour Cray launched the company back in the early 1970s. While the computers they are creating remain technology performance powerhouses, they are competing in an entirely different landscape that includes cloud computing where companies can get as many computing resources as they need and pay by the sip (or the gulp in the case of Cray-style processing)…
To battle that competition, the Urkia-GX comes stacked with a choice of 16/32/48 2-socket Intel® Xeon® v4 (Broadwell) processor nodes, which translates into up to 1,728 cores per system along with up to 22 TB DRAM. Storage options include 35 TB PCIe solid state drives and 192 TB spinning hard drives for local storage…
Read more from the source @ https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/crays-latest-supercomputer-runs-openstack-and-open-source-big-data-tools/