[[{“fid”:”93989″,”view_mode”:”full”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“height”:232,”width”:320,”style”:”float: left; margin: 5px;”,”class”:”media-element file-full”}}]]The Cray XC30-AC air cooled supercomputer is designed to enable users in fields such as manufacturing, life sciences and energy to apply supercomputing resources toward solving challenges that can only be addressed with high-end HPC technology. It features the same key traits of the Cray XC30 system – Adaptive Supercomputing, scalable performance and tight system-level integration. Both solutions feature the Aries system interconnect; a Dragonfly network topology that frees applications from locality constraints; the next-generation of the scalable, high performance Cray Linux Environment that also supports a wide range of ISV applications; Cray’s HPC optimized programming environment; and the ability to handle a wide variety of processor types, including Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, and NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators. In addition, the Cray XC30-AC system features an air-cooled, self-sufficient cabinet architecture; physically smaller compute cabinets, with 16 vertical blades per cabinet; a single fan for bottom-to-top vertical air flow; no requirements for liquid coolants; lower network costs without the need for optical cables; and lower power option supporting either 480V or 208V operation.