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RSS cray in newsRoadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Rounding out the top 10 is Sun Microsystem's Ranger at number four, Cray's Jaguar at number five, SGI's Encanto at number seven, and SGI's Altix at number 10. Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International... [19 Jun 2008]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News Hector uses a Cray XT4 system with software and application support provided by NAG. The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Got two seconds? Make your voice heard - take our latest poll. [15 Jan 2008]
Is this the malware mother of all botnets?
News It's certainly a lot of faster than for Cray to bring out its latest supercomputer. The Storm Worm botnet has been estimated to control between one million and five million computers, which one researcher says makes it more powerful than IBM's... [12 Sep 2007]
Reading Uni feels the supercomputer power
News AWE's Cray XT3 supercomputer - known as "Redwood" - delivers three-dimensional modelling and simulation to support the establishment's physics, engineering and materials teams. The University of Reading now has the most powerful academic... [11 Jul 2007]
Sun 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 technological projects for the... [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 Monday that it has filed for... [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 the Power5 processor, a chip... [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 sell off Cray by March 2000 to a small... [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 and headquarters to celebrate its 150th... [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 began selling the 64-processor E10000 server - a... [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 Concurrent Versions System (CVS... [24 Jan 2003]
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 made up of a network of... [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 of its current Cray... [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 supercomputer is the most powerful in... [19 Jun 2002]
