Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy, capable of conducting 3D simulations at unprecedented speeds to better ...

Cray has a new supercomputer called the XC50, the successor to its XC40 model and the first supercomputer from the company that can deliver one petaflop of performance (at peak) in a single cabinet.

In our hubris, we pat ourselves on the back when we’re able to pull data off our old SCSI drives. [Chris Fenton]’s attempt to get an OS for a homebrew Cray-1 puts us rightfully to shame. Last year we ...

Here’s some cloud computing news you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft has partnered with Cray to bring that company’s supercomputers and its storage system to the Azure platform. Unsurprisingly, ...

Supercomputer specialist Cray has seen revenues drop in the past quarter as demand for High Performance Computing (HPC) faltered and important chips were delayed. To make matters worse, a recent ...

Cray, the name of the Minnesotan who pioneered the supercomputer, will live on in high-tech. After the news last week that Cray Inc. would be purchased by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, executives ...

Some of the world’s most challenging algorithms can be worked out in mere moments by supercomputers, a type of computing technology which goes well beyond the processing power found in a typical ...

Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to an exclusive partnership between Cray and Microsoft, the companies announced ...

Cray, the US supercomputer company recently acquired by HPE, will partner with Japan's Fujitsu to offer Arm A64FX processors in its systems. Fujitsu's chips will be available in Cray CS500 ...

Sometimes it is hard to remember just how far computers have come in the last three or four decades. An old NASA video (see below) has been restored with better sound and video recently that shows ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The University of Illinois says Seattle-based Cray Inc. will take over construction of the stalled $300 million Blue Waters supercomputer project, three months after IBM pulled ...