The launch of the Cray-1 supercomputer was a seminal moment in computing history. The 160 megaflops Cray-1 came out in 1975, and soon was sold to more than 100 customers, making it one of the most ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The University of Illinois says Seattle-based Cray Inc. will take over construction of the stalled $300 million Blue Waters supercomputer project, three months after IBM pulled ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is planning to invest $22 million in a former Cray Inc. research and development facility to modernize the location. The company plans to create a Global Center of ...

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 ...

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, ...

It's been more than 45 years since Robert Cray released his first album, and since then the guitarist and singer has released 19 more albums, won five Grammy Awards -- and appeared in "Animal House." ...

In our hubris, we pat ourselves on the back when we’re able to pull data off our old SCSI drives. [Chris Fenton]’s attempt to get an OS for a homebrew Cray-1 puts us rightfully to shame. Last year we ...

The Robert Cray Band has won five Grammy awards and has played alongside some of the giants of blues. But the origin story of the band is in Eugene during the 1970s. The Robert Cray Band makes its ...

From a performance standpoint we know building a homebrew Raspberry Pi cluster doesn’t make a lot of sense, as even a fairly run of the mill desktop x86 machine is sure to run circles around it. That ...

Why should UNIX nerds (God love ’em) have all the fun? Cray and Microsoft announced today a partnership to produce the CX1, a $60,000 (on the top end) supercomputer that runs the forthcoming Windows ...

A Cray supercomputer might look like a set of large futuristic filing cabinets. But the SV1 is among the fastest computers on earth, bearing a name that has a special place in the history of computing ...