IBM Goes Retro To Bridge The Supercomputing Divide
News Hewlett-Packard and IBM, which together dominate the high-performance computing market, today sell only scalar machines, but vector machines, including Cray's X1 and NEC's SX-8, are still available. But Cray sees obstacles on the horizon for...
[October 26, 2004, 11:50]
Cray Supercomputer Will Draw Power From Sun
News Years ago, Cray Research focused on making "vector" supercomputers, a type popular among weapons designers, intelligence agencies and automotive engineers. Since then, Cray has updated the vector SV1 while working on both its successor, the SV-2...
[March 29, 2001, 10:06]
Supercomputers
Talkback The Cray devices were vector processors which relied on the ability of the system to carry out numerous calculations in parallel but only if the problem (usually written in Fortran for array processing) was presented in the correct way such that...
[July 6, 2007, 19:13]
NEC Updates Vector Supercomputer Line
News Vector computers, also sold by Cray, are faster at processing some types of data than mainstream "scalar" machines that dominate conventional business computing. NEC has updated its vector supercomputer line, introducing the SX-8R on Tuesday.
[October 18, 2006, 13:00]
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]
Accelerating AMD
News So the example I'd give you is in the high-performance tactical computing area, where people like Cray and others would like to do vector floating-point units. This chip is really aimed at running a specific workload like vector floating-point or...
[January 4, 2006, 16:55]
Cray Chief Quits Amid Board Discord
News Among the goals Cray has lined up to regain leadership are: growing sales of its Cray SX-6 series of supercomputers from NEC into the industrial, weather and other classic vector markets; complete development of its SV2 project system; and...
[March 5, 2002, 14:23]
Cray To Announce Opteron-based Supercomputer
News Cray also is working on a separate design from its original "vector" supercomputer lineage, a type of system that can perform particular tasks such as signal analysis or encryption very quickly. Cray on Monday is expected to announce two...
[November 13, 2006, 9:06]
News Burst: Compaq Launches Supercomputer
News The most powerful of its AlphaServer products so far, it features up to 128 AlphaServer SMP building blocks, each having around the same computing power of an 8 processor Cray C90 vector supercomputer.
[November 18, 1999, 11:06]
NEC Goes Old-school With New Supercomputer
News Supercomputer specialist and former NEC foe Cray sells earlier SX series computers in the United States and has the right to include the SX-7 as well, Andersen said. Machines in the SX line are "vector" supercomputers, which can perform a more...
[October 15, 2002, 10:03]
China Wants Place On Supercomputer Charts
News According to information on AMD's Web site, the company is working with US supercomputer maker Cray on a massive 10,000-Opteron unit called Red Storm for the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
Cray Sees Simple Road To Recovery
News One of the four chip architectures is Cray's traditional stronghold, vector processors that can execute particular types of mathematical problems very quickly. In a bid to simplify its product lines and get an edge on competitors, Cray plans a long...
[March 20, 2006, 8:05]
