SAN FRANCISCO--Burton Smith, a longtime supercomputer designer and chief scientist at Cray, has resigned to take a position at Microsoft. Smith was a founder of Tera Computer, which in 2000 acquired ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A company founded in the Chippewa Valley is being honored as Wisconsin’s entry in the American Innovation series of $1 coins. The series, which dates to 2018, honors people and ...

If you think of supercomputers, it is hard not to think of Seymour Cray. He built giant computers at Control Data Corporation and went on to build the famous Cray supercomputers. While those computers ...

Microsoft Corp. has hired supercomputing pioneer Burton Smith to bolster the company's development of products for high-performance computing. Smith, chief scientist at supercomputer maker Cray Inc., ...

When you think of supercomputers, you probably think of vast air-controlled rooms crammed full of cabinets and illuminated by banks of flashing LEDs. The first Cray supercomputer, for instance, cost ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it would acquire supercomputer company Cray for $1.3 billion in a cash offer. This is a big move by HPE to boost its position in the ...

With an eye on expanding its high-performance computer offerings, Cray Inc. said yesterday that it’s acquiring Burnaby, British Columbia-based OctigaBay Systems Corp. In an announcement, Seattle-based ...

In 1976, Seymour Cray designed and Cay Research, Inc. released the Cray-1 supercomputer, said to be ten times more powerful than any other computer in the world. In 1985, the company released the Cray ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - "Big data" means big computers, and good news for Cray Inc. The pioneer of supercomputers in the 1970s stood on the brink of obscurity 20 years ago but is now surging back to ...

The personal supercomputer is not a new idea, but this is the first time that Cray is trying it out in the market. If you want to cut off the air that Linux breathes, as Microsoft certainly does, one ...