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Top 500 Supercomputers Announced
News The big change is Cray's Jaguar system, which leapfrogged from the number 10 to the number two position. The only two other systems to surpass 100 teraflops were also made by Cray: Oak Ridge National Laboratories' Jaguar, at 101.7 teraflops, and...
[June 27, 2007, 10:38]
US Seeks Super Spying Computers
News The US Defense Department on Tuesday awarded grants totalling more than $146m (£89.27m) to Cray, IBM and Sun Microsystems for work to create supercomputers by the end of the decade. Meanwhile, Sun is working to elevate its high-performance...
[July 9, 2003, 7:59]
Cray's King-of-the-hill Supercomputer
News Cray announced on Thursday a new supercomputer that will leave its fastest counterparts in the dust. Cray's X1 will offer up to 52.4 teraflops, or trillion mathematical calculations per second. Reaching that level requires 4,098 custom-designed...
[November 14, 2002, 14:56]
Cray's Nuclear Simulator To Hit Mass Market
News Supercomputer maker Cray said on Monday that it is planning to release a line of products based on the Advanced Micro Devices-powered Red Storm machine it is building for the US Department of Energy. Due out sometime in 2004, the supercomputers...
[October 27, 2003, 15:40]
Taking A Firetide Instant Network Where None Has Gone Before
White Papers The Computer History Museum collects artifacts from the information age, preserving items such as the Cray-1 supercomputer and the original Apple I computer, together with a comprehensive collection of culturally-defining related advertising...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Five Years Ago: Seymour Cray Dies Aged 71
News Seymour Cray, designer of the Cray-1 supercomputer, died on 5 October 1996 aged 71. Cray, who is widely recognised as the man largely responsible for modern supercomputing, died after a car crash several weeks ago.
[October 7, 2001, 7:30]
Cray Supercomputer Goes Dual-core
News The Red Storm computer, a machine Cray will start building at Sandia National Laboratories this year, will be upgraded in 2005 with dual-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices. Cray has specialised for years in making completely...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For comparison, the first Cray-1 supercomputer in 1976 ran at 160 megaflops - that’s about three hundred times slower than a single Montecito - and required around a thousand times more power from its own 150 kilowatt generator.
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
Linux Networx To Unveil New Cluster Design
News Those companies include Cray, IBM, Silicon Graphics, NEC and Sun. Linux Networx, a company that specialises in supercomputers made from clusters of Linux machines, plans on Monday to unveil two new systems: the LS-1 and the LS-X.
[November 14, 2005, 9:25]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback When U.S put strategic imposition on giving its CRAY XMP Super computers to INDIA, we indegenioulsy developed our own PARAM 2000 super computer series within 1 year which used a different technology (PARALLEL Processing / CRAY used Multi...
[September 2, 2005, 7:29]
LinuxWorld: SGI Shifts From NT To Linux
News SGI also will form a separate business unit for its Cray family of high-end computers and for its future vector-based products. SGI is looking for partners to run this business, but plans to follow its current road map for the Cray products.
[August 11, 1999, 9:49]
IBM Cements Its Supercomputing Dominance
News AMD, built the Opteron processors used in the number 10 system, a new machine called Red Storm built by Cray for Sandia National Laboratories. Cray and Sandia predicted performance of 100 teraflops a year ago.
[June 22, 2005, 15:00]
Supercomputing In The Tennessee Woods
Articles The above image shows one row of the lab's Cray X1E, the largest vector supercomputer in the world and the 175th most powerful computer overall. The Cray X1E supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory requires a separate array of discs to...
[July 9, 2008, 11:19]
Intel Plans Supercomputing Push
News Years ago, the market was a province of huge multinationals such as IBM or specialists such as Cray because supercomputers were largely customised beasts that often required years to build. Intel plans to dedicate $36m for basic research to...
[November 17, 2003, 12:20]
Linux Focus: The Borg Takes On NASA Multi-processing
News Following the relegation of its Cray licence, the Centre built a network ‘supercomputer' made up of 16 machines each with a 300MHz Pentium II processor, 192MB RAM and a 1-Gigabyte hard disk. We have used a Cray J916 until now for many of our more...
[June 11, 1998, 13:05]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback India built its own Super computer after the USA denied India purchasing a Cray computer back in 1987. India’s new ‘PARAM Padma’ Terascale Supercomputer (1 Trillion processes per sec.is also amongst only 4 nations in the world to have this...
[September 22, 2005, 10:32]
Linux Supercomputer To Simulate Space For NASA
News Historically, supercomputers have been monolithic machines based on proprietary technology from companies such as Cray and IBM. NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics and chipmaker Intel to develop a major supercomputer based on Linux to...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
Seymour Cray Dies Aged 71
News Cray, who is widely recognised as the man largely responsible for modern supercomputing, died after a car crash several weeks ago. He was famous for saying there would always be a need for a machine "a hundred times more powerful than anything...
[October 7, 1996, 15:54]
Photos: A Trip Down Silicon Memory Lane
News The Cray-1 supercomputer is in the background. The DigiBarn is a computer history museum, nestled in a 90-year-old barn, deep in the Santa Cruz mountains about 90 minutes south of San Francisco. The pride and joy of Nasa contractor Bruce Damer and...
[August 20, 2007, 13:04]
Nvidia Gains On Rivals, Prepares For NV30 Launch
News This is better performance than a Cray SV-1 supercomputer and 30 times the geometry power of an SGI Infinite Reality engine, according to Kirk's presentation. New figures show that despite its product delays, Nvidia is continuing to gain market...
[November 6, 2002, 16:38]
