Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has agreed to a $1.3 billion acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the companies said Friday. The purchase price, $35 a share, is 17.4% above where ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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 ...

Sometimes it is hard to remember just how far computers have come in the last three or four decades. An old NASA video (see below) has been restored with better sound and video recently that shows ...

With the success of the Cray-1 the next model had to be faster still. The Cray-2 was to be smaller and this needed new a hardware design. Using special 3D modules to hold the chips Cray managed to ...

SEATTLE, May 9, 2017 — Living Computers: Museum + Labs adds two of the most important supercomputers ever created to its permanent collection. The Cray-1 supercomputer goes on display at Living ...

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 ...

In the race for the most powerful computers, Fugaku, a Japanese supercomputer, recently beat American and Chinese machines. By Don Clark The price was relatively small, but the deal may have a big ...