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Kraken Cray XT5 system specifications:

    System has:
  • Cray Linux Environment (CLE) 2.2
  • A peak performance of 1.03 PetaFLOP
  • 99,072 compute cores
  • 129 TB of compute memory
  • A 3.3 PB parallel file system of disk storage for scratch space (2.4 PB available)
  • 8,256 compute nodes

    Each node has:
  • Two 2.6 GHz six-core AMD Opteron processors (Istanbul)
  • 12 cores
  • 16 GB of memory
  • Connection via Cray SeaStar2+ router

For previous statistics, see Kraken machine size.
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