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The XD1 was originally designed by OctigaBay Systems Corp. of Vancouver , Canada as the OctigaBay 12K system. The company was acquired by Cray Inc. in February 2004. Announced on 4 October 2004 , the Cray XD1 range incorporate Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA s for application acceleration. With 12 CPUs in a ''chassis'', and up to 12 chassis installable in a ''rack'', XD1 systems may hold several 144-CPU multiples in multirack configurations. The Operating System used on the XD1 is a customized version of GNU/Linux , and the machine's Load Balancing / resource management system is an enhanced version of Sun Microsystems ' GridEngine . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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