SAN FRANCISCO--Burton Smith, a longtime supercomputer designer and chief scientist at Cray, has resigned to take a position at Microsoft. Smith was a founder of Tera Computer, which in 2000 acquired ...

In 1976, Seymour Cray designed and Cay Research, Inc. released the Cray-1 supercomputer, said to be ten times more powerful than any other computer in the world. In 1985, the company released the Cray ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has a shiny new toy. The information technology firm announced today that is spending $1.3 billion to acquire supercomputer manufacturer Cray. HPE, which is a business ...

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire -08/15/12)- Building upon the Company's commitment to its Adaptive Supercomputing vision, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (CRAY) today announced that its next-generation ...

The United States Mint has released the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, and one of them honors a monumental moment in the history of HPC: the announcement of the Cray-1 ...

A company founded in the Chippewa Valley is being honored as Wisconsin’s entry in the American Innovation series of $1 coins. The series, which dates to 2018, honors people and inventions developed in ...

It's official: Cray Inc. is moving more than 200 employees to downtown St. Paul. After months of speculation, the supercomputer company signed a 10 1/2-year lease last week for 51,100 square feet of ...

Supercomputing is all about pushing out the leading edge of computer speed and performance. The sports metaphors that arise as research sites compete to create the fastest supercomputer sometimes ...

HPE will build two systems for Oak Ridge National Laboratory and introduces next-generation supercomputing portfolio ...

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. and Japanese rival NEC Corp. have buried the hatchet and signed an agreement under which Cray will sell NEC’s vector supercomputers in the U.S. and the two companies will ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Cray Inc. cray said late Tuesday it has been awarded a $250 million contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new supercomputer. The ...