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RSS CraySun dropped from Darpa supercomputer project
News The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) will continue to fund petaflop-class supercomputer projects at Cray and IBM but Sun Microsystems is out of the running. Darpa, which funds computing and... [22 Nov 2006]
Ex-Hollywood high-flyer files for bankruptcy protection
News Before Bishop's arrival in 1999, then-CEO Rick Belluzzo also initiated a turnaround effort at SGI that included cutting 1,500 positions and selling off its Cray supercomputer unit. Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced on... [09 May 2006]
IBM lines up big daddies of Unix servers
News Sun jump-started the high-end Unix server business in the mid-1990s with its 64-processor E10000, a design the company acquired from Cray. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's Squadron family of servers using... [15 Oct 2004]
5 years ago... SGI to sell Cray supercomputer unit
News 12.08.99: Silicon Graphics says it will cut 1,500 jobs and sell its Cray supercomputer unit. Chairman and CEO Rick Belluzzo reports he's already in talks with potential buyers for Cray. SGI managed to... [12 Aug 2004]
Met Office unveils new supercomputers
News The two NEC SX-6s are six times the speed of the two Cray T3E machines that they replace. Then the Cray machines were turned off. The Meteorological Office today showed off its shiny new supercomputers... [21 Jun 2004]
IBM and Intel power ahead with supercomputing
News And there are new varieties of systems arriving, including Cray's new X1, which holds 10 spots starting with No. IBM and Intel have edged ahead on a quickly changing list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. [23 Jun 2003]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Khan worked at Cray Research, the company with perhaps the best-recognised name in the technical computing arena, while Masters himself comes from Floating Point Systems and Cray. But ever since Sun... [28 Apr 2003]
Critical open source vulnerability shored up
News Versions of CVS vulnerable to this attack include those shipped by Connectiva, Cray, Debian, IBM, MandrakeSoft and Red Hat, although many others may be vulnerable. A critical vulnerability has been found in the... [24 Jan 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: 2002/2003 straw poll, mobility versus privacy and Platform Intelligence
Comment President Rene Copeland, having held executive positions previously at Cray, IBM, and SGI, will focus on the growing need for HPC solutions in government. Any perceived green shoots of recovery have been mis-sightings at... [23 Dec 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: web services reality, strong CA and big iron AMD
Comment AMD received a welcome winter warmer this week from Cray, the maker of supercomputers, which has just appointed the firm as chip supplier for its latest monster mainframe. AMD's super Cray contract*... [28 Oct 2002]
NEC refreshes old-school 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. Much of the contemporary supercomputer world is focused on machines... [15 Oct 2002]
NEC scoops supercomputer Met Office deal
News Its current installation is from Cray, once renowned as the world's largest and most famous supercomputer company. And by 2004, NEC is promising that the Met Office will have a machine with 12.5 times the computer power... [26 Jul 2002]
What is the fastest computer in the world?
News Cray Research is one of the best known supercomputer makers but all the major Unix vendors have a finger in the pie too. Boffins from around the world are descending upon Heidelberg in Germany to discover which... [19 Jun 2002]
Top 10 deals of the month - February
News Dell signs Cray deal Customer: Cray Customer: American Express Supplier: IBM Value: $4bn Technology: Outsourcing (web hosting, data centres, desktop strategies and its mid-range hardware and software) ... [01 Mar 2002]
Dell signs Cray deal
News Dell has signed a three-year contract with supercomputer manufacturer Cray to sell Dell servers in its computing clusters. Cray will use Dell's PowerEdge servers in its cluster networks, in which many... [04 Feb 2002]
