Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy, capable of conducting 3D simulations at unprecedented speeds to better ...

Cray has a new supercomputer called the XC50, the successor to its XC40 model and the first supercomputer from the company that can deliver one petaflop of performance (at peak) in a single cabinet.

Here’s some cloud computing news you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft has partnered with Cray to bring that company’s supercomputers and its storage system to the Azure platform. Unsurprisingly, ...

Cray, the name of the Minnesotan who pioneered the supercomputer, will live on in high-tech. After the news last week that Cray Inc. would be purchased by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, executives ...

Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to an exclusive partnership between Cray and Microsoft, the companies announced ...

Some of the world’s most challenging algorithms can be worked out in mere moments by supercomputers, a type of computing technology which goes well beyond the processing power found in a typical ...

There are many good processors out there, but there are few that are excellent and elegant inasmuch as they are co-designed for specific workloads and then do them very well. The Sparc64-VIIIfx chip ...

Cray, the company that built the world’s fastest supercomputer, is bringing its next generation of supercomputer technology to regular ol’ business customers with systems starting at just $500,000.

The University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has contracted with Cray to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project. That ...

It's interesting that one of the seminal events in the history of Sun Microsystems isn't included in its official corporate history. But without question, Sun would not be the company it is today had ...