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Cray Compiler Environment Available For CS300 Line

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Supercomputing company Cray has released the Cray Compiler Environment (CCE) on the Cray CS300 line of cluster supercomputers.

The CCE is designed to support x86 processors, Nvidia Tesla GPU accelerators and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The CCE also supports Cray LibSci, which offers a library of linear algebra solvers that enhances user CPU and GPU application performance based on problem size, and improving productivity for Fortran, C, and C++ programmers.

Cray says it will continue to support multiple compilers on the Cray CS300 systems, including compilers from the GNU Compiler Collection, Intel, PathScale and PGI.

[Image courtesy: Cray]

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