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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. and Japanese rival NEC Corp. have buried the hatchet and signed an agreement under which Cray will sell NEC’s vector supercomputers in the U.S. and the two companies will ...

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., ...

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 ...

A plethora of notable early computers from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen are to be put up for auction. Auction house Christie's is putting up hundreds of items across three sales ...

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 ...