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RSS CrayThose were the days: The BBC Micro remembered
News Taskis also waxed lyrical about the reliability of the machine, claiming he heard a story from a colleague about a University of London BBC Micro which was considered the only piece of kit solid enough to poll a Cray... [01 Feb 2002]
Is Silicon Graphics turning the corner?
News The extent of the divestures has been overestimated in the press, he said, as the company still owns large parts of MIPS and Cray, including engineers and intellectual property. SGI has sold a massive supercomputer to... [11 Jan 2002]
Finnish government lines up Linux in £3.1m deal
News The Finnish Ministry of Education has decided to replace its existing Cray T3E computer with a supercomputer running Linux. Professor Risto Numminen of the Helsinki University of Technology, said supercomputers used in... [29 May 2000]
Tera Computer buys troubled Cray Research from SGI
News US supercomputer maker, Tera Computer, has bought the Cray Research supercomputer business unit from SGI for an undisclosed fee. The unit will be rebranded as Cray and has predicted annual revenues of... [02 Mar 2000]
Copper chip technology launched by IBM
News The copper-based Power3-II processor is a RISC chip developed for IBM's RS/6000 servers and workstations, and the PC giant claims the system is twice as fast as comparable units from Sun Microsystems and SGI/Cray. [09 Feb 2000]
IBM knocks SGI/Cray off supercomputer top spot
News IBM has knocked SGI/Cray from the number one spot as top supercomputer supplier. This is also the first time SGI/Cray have been deposed from the top spot in the seven-year history of the Top500 list.... [16 Nov 1999]
US Department of Energy buys Cray supercomputer
News The US Department of Energy has bought the latest Cray supercomputer to research climate change and new energy sources. The Cray SV1 is Silicon Graphics' first scaleable supercomputer; it can support up... [16 Sep 1999]
Blackforest puts cherry on IBM supercomputer cake
News The machine, based in Boulder, Colorado, replaces a Cray supercomputer. IBM has scooped a $6.2m (£3.85m) contract to supply the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) with an RS/6000 supercomputer. [12 Aug 1999]
SGI to sell Cray and shed 1,500 jobs
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) is to slash up to 1,500 jobs worldwide, and is planning to sell its Cray supercomputer unit. According to chairman and CEO, Rick Belluzzo, a massive restructuring will see SGI focus more on Linux,... [11 Aug 1999]
Supercomputer rivals up the ante
News Blue Mountain, which consists of a cluster of 48 commercially available Cray Origin2000 servers, cost $120m and has "the world's most powerful advanced graphics system", according to SGI. Two supercomputer industry... [11 Nov 1998]
In brief: SGI claims Cray SV1 outclasses rivals
News Silicon Graphics has released the Cray SV1 vector supercomputer, which can scale to 1,000 or more processors. The company claims the SV1 offers up to eight times the performance of competitive systems, while maintaining... [26 Jun 1998]
