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 troubled computer maker selects a financial firm to help it get its Cray supercomputer unit on its own feet. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

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, ...

The world would be a much different place without Cray Inc. Here's a simple fact. Without the Chippewa Falls company, our national defense and our nation's scientific knowledge would be much ...

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 ...

In 1960, he completed the design of the Control Data 1604, the first computer to be fully transistorized. He also began the design of the first supercomputer, the CDC 6600, which was also the first to ...