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Cray supercomputer will draw power from Sun
News Supercomputer stalwart Cray announced a deal to use new Sun Microsystems servers in a design the company will begin selling later this year. Cray will use the Sun Fire 6800 -- the most powerful of the new generation of servers based on Sun's...
[March 29, 2001, 10:06]
Cray moves into the lower echelons of the computing market
News Cray has begun selling its XD1 systems, machines using Opteron processors and the Linux operating system that the supercomputer specialist hopes will give it a better foothold in the lower end of the market.
[October 5, 2004, 10:25]
Cray sees simple road to recovery
News In a bid to simplify its product lines and get an edge on competitors, Cray plans a long-term strategy to unify four different supercomputing technologies into a single, versatile machine. Cray faces competition from competitors such as IBM, HP...
[March 20, 2006, 8:05]
Cray chief quits amid board discord
News Supercomputer maker Cray on Tuesday said President and chief executive Michael Haydock has resigned over differences with the board about how to restore the company to long-term industry leadership. The company said chairman James Rottsolk will...
[March 5, 2002, 14:23]
Cray turns to Windows for new supercomputer line
News Microsoft's entry into the supercomputing market took another step on Tuesday as high-end system leader Cray announced plans for its first machine running the Windows HPC Server operating system. Cray announced the CX1 supercomputer, which will run...
[September 16, 2008, 16:55]
Cray sets price for public offering
News Supercomputer maker Cray priced a new public offering of its common stock at $6.20 (£3.83) per share on Thursday. The offer increases Cray's outstanding shares by about 13 percent. Cray, which sells high-end computers to customers, including the US...
[February 14, 2003, 11:12]
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 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]
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]
Cray swallows OctigaBay
News Supercomputer specialist Cray has signed a deal to acquire OctigaBay, a maker of special-purpose computers that are based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor. Cray announced on Wednesday that it will pay $15m (£8m) in cash and 12.7 million...
[February 27, 2004, 14:15]
Cray to announce Opteron-based supercomputer
News Cray on Monday is expected to announce two supercomputing developments, the new AMD Opteron-based XT4 shipping this year and the multi-threaded XMT due next year. The two machines are two components of Cray's longer-term "Ranier" plan to converge...
[November 13, 2006, 9:06]
AMD chips in with Cray for world's fastest computer
News The world's first commercial one-petaflops supercomputer has been commissioned, Cray announced on Thursday. This will join existing Cray supercomputer systems to be used for research in neutron science, biological systems, energy production and...
[June 19, 2006, 14:50]
Cray comes fighting back
Blog IBM's time dominating the top of the supercomputing pile has ended for now.Although the Armonk giant may still hold the number one spot in the latest supercomputer Top 500 still it no longer holds the top five spots as it did last year .So well...
[June 27, 2007, 12:59]
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]
AMD chips in with Cray for world's fastest computer
Talkback It seems ironic that Intel launch a superb range of processors - with emphasis not only on high performance, but also on lower power consumption, then Cray announce a petaflop machine based around AMD processors.
[June 20, 2006, 11:25]
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]
AMD chips in with Cray for world's fastest computer
Talkback AMD performs better, just look at the hardware speed tests. Simple decision if based on performance.
[June 20, 2006, 13:56]
Progress without parallel
Leader In 1981, Seymour Cray was hard at work on the Cray 2 supercomputer architecture. With its very expensive optional maths co-processor chip it could just about manage 30 kiloflops - 33 thousand times slower, at a cost of around $2,000 (£1,000), or...
[June 19, 2006, 17:20]
IBM's Roadrunner holds onto Top500 crown
News IBM's Roadrunner and Cray's Jaguar have retained their No.and No.rankings on the Top500 supercomputer list, which is drawn up twice a year. Two other high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the top 10 are new: the Kraken, a Cray XT5 machine...
[June 24, 2009, 13:01]
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]
