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White Paper This paper summarizes performance and failure analyses results for the BlueArc Titan NFS server in the Cray CASA test bed in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsi. The goals of this project are: to observe and describe the file... [01 Apr 2009]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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,... [12 Aug 1999]
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]
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]
Application Sensitivity to Link and Injection Bandwidth on a Cray XT4 System
White Paper This paper describes the efforts to characterize application sensitivity to link and injection bandwidth on a Cray XT4 system. Link bandwidth is controlled by modifying the number of rails activated per network link. [11 Sep 2008]
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... [22 Nov 2006]
Analyzing the Scalability of Graph Algorithms on Eldorado
White Paper The Cray MTA-2 system provides exceptional performance on a variety of sparse graph algorithms. Cray is preparing an Eldorado platform that leverages the Cray XT3 network and system... [04 Aug 2008]
Momentum Webcast: Fast Financial Close With the 2007 Office System (Level 100)
White Paper The presenter shows how Akona Systems, a Microsoft Certified Partner, helped Cray, Inc.significantly shorten and streamline their financial close process. Cray executives selected Akona Systems Financial... [11 Dec 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo The Cray X1E is so power-intensive that it requires liquid cooling from 16-inch pipes installed in the floor underneath the supercomputer. Pictured here is one row of the lab's Cray X1E, the largest... [14 Jul 2008]
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]
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]
