cray articles, videos, photos and opinions

Sort by Relevance | Date | Popularity
A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

A tour of the UK's Vintage Computer Festival

...the information technology revolution. It's a logic board from a 1975 Cray 1 supercomputer — moreover, from the very first one built. For a while... Read more

22 June, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel buys supercomputing network tech from Cray

...Supercomputer maker Cray will sell its interconnect hardware development programme and related intellectual property to... Read more

25 April, 2012 by Brooke Crothers

Cray leads US thrust for supercomputer supremacy

...lost first to China, then Japan. The US is hoping that the Cray XK6 high-performance computer will help it win back pole position in... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM's third-generation Blue Gene aims for 100 petaflops

...to three petaflops and was launched in 2007. In the past year Cray and Fujitsu have both announced supercomputing architectures that can scale to levels... Read more

17 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cray taps GPUs for 50-petaflop supercomputer

...Cray has married GPUs and CPUs to create the XK6 high-performance computer... Read more

25 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

IBM pulls out of petascale computing contract

IBM has left the Blue Waters scheme to develop a 10 petaflop supercomputer due to spiralling financial and technical support costs Read more

9 August, 2011 by Jack Clark
Exhibition charts the history of computing

Exhibition charts the history of computing

...For five years the Cray-1A (1976) was the world's fastest computer. Each machine was hand... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Scott Ard

It's cooler to soak your servers

Soaking your servers to keep them cool is not a new concept. Cray was doing it way back in the 1980s with the Cray-2... Read more

15 March, 2012
Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...off by selling memory systems, but in 1958 the now-legendary Seymour Cray signed up. The company released what could be described as the first... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer

China builds world's fastest supercomputer

...performance of the system. The world's previous fastest supercomputer, the Jaguar Cray XT5 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, had an Rmax... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

NSA plans $2bn surveillance datacentre

...phone calls, to Google searches. The agency has also enlisted supercomputer specialist Cray to help it build a new multi-petaflop supercomputer to attempt to... Read more

16 March, 2012

EU to double supercomputing funding to ?1.2bn

...other countries house the world's top HPC builders — the US has Cray, IBM and SGI, while Japan has Fujitsu — Europe can be competitive in... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

AMD's Bulldozer-based 16-core Opterons arrive

...September. Much of the initial batch went to supercomputer manufacturers such as Cray, with its XK6 system architecture. HP and Dell said on Monday they... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Jack Clark

Fujitsu spins out supercomputer from K Computer

...12TB of memory. Pricing was not disclosed. The architecture will compete with Cray's XK6 'Titan' supercomputer system, which can theoretically scale to 50 petaflops... Read more

10 November, 2011

Intel's Knights Corner to debut in Texas supercomputer

...will be based on, but Nvidia's Tesla has been tapped by Cray for an upcoming high-performance computing architecture that can scale to 50... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Get ZDNet UK's daily newsletter

Enter your email address to sign up

ZDNet UK Live

Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

35 minutes ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

2 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

5 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

11 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

12 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

13 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

17 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

17 hours ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

18 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

20 hours ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

21 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

21 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

1 day ago by NarayanaIyyappan on IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors
DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

1 day ago by DarkDown on Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds
Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

2 days ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

2 days ago by Sungwoo on Loose Ends - Upgrading the Aspire One 522
itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

2 days ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

3 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

3 days ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everything