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 ...

Computer wizard Seymour Cray, who pioneered the use of transistors in computers and later developed supercomputers to run business and government information networks, died Saturday at 71. Mr. Cray ...

Seymour Cray’s big super computer was crazy. It’s signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant ...

In the early 1950s, having secured degrees in engineering and math from the University of Minnesota, Seymour Cray experienced a young adult's on-the-cusp moment. "It is fun to remember that point in ...

A new standard for measuring supercomputer performance has selected two U.S. machines as surpassing domestic and foreign competitors in speed and economy. Supercomputers made by Cray Research of ...

The Cray-1, released in 1976, was one of the most successful supercomputers of all time. The Freon-cooled computer was clocked at a heady 80MHz and capable of up to 250 megaflops -- much more than any ...

The Colorado Springs-based supercomputer company founded in 1989 by Seymour Cray after he left Cray Research. Cray developed the Cray-3, an incredibly fast gallium arsenide-based computer that ran at ...

It'll pay $1.3 billion to take over the maker of what'll be the world's fastest machine. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum ...

Japan has selected a Cray XC50 supercomputer to support its mission to advance nuclear fusion research and development. It will be a 4 petaflop computer that will replace a 1.5-petaflop Bullx cluster ...

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 ...

Cray is not likely to garner much attention when it reports first-quarter earnings on April 28. Like its much larger competitors, Cray is in the computer business but at $155 million in sales, it's ...

For PGS, an oil-imaging company in Oslo, Norway, finding pockets of oil and natural gas in the ground essentially starts by taking a large ultrasound picture of Earth. “It involves huge amounts of ...