Previously code-named "Cascade, " the Cray XC30 supercomputer is the Company's most-advanced high performance computing system ever built.

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Do you scale-up to a high performance computing system or scale-out by just adding nodes to a distributed computing network?

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Potential participants include users and producers of systems and components for telecommunications carriers, Internet exchanges, financial markets, data centers, multiple system operators (MSOs) networking systems, high-performance computing, network storage and servers and other individuals interested in future IEEE 802.3 Ethernet wireline standards.

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