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Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled Friday its intent to acquire global supercomputer innovator Cray for approximately $1.3 billion in a move to take high-performance computing (HPC) to the next ...
Last year we saw [Chris]’ fully functional 1/10th scale Cray-1 supercomputer built around FPGA. While the reproduction was nearly cycle-accurate, [Chris] hasn’t had an opportunity to test out ...
The name for this project is inspired by Seymore Cray. Our Father of the Supercomputer biography tells his story including why the Cray-1 Supercomputer was referred to as “the world’s most ...
WASHINGTON---The decision by Cray Research Inc. to abandon development of its most advanced supercomputer project has dealt a blow to the U.S. supercomputer industry and may set back researchers in ...
Powered by the HPE Cray EX supercomputer featuring AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct GPU accelerators, the compute performance of 13.5 PFlop/s will provide a magnificent boost to computational ...
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What Is a Supercomputer?
This Sh*t Is Cray Parallel Processing The first computer generally regarded as a supercomputer is the CDC 6600, designed by ...
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A History of Supercomputers
The CDC 6600, introduced by the Control Data Corporation, usually gets the nod as the first supercomputer. Chiefly designed ...
In addition, HPE is expanding its Apollo server lineup to include Cray's supercomputers, which are based on the supercomputing vendors Shasta architecture. Bill Mannel, HPE's vice president and ...
The fastest computer in the world is now the Jaguar, a Cray supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory running AMD Opteron processors, and capable of 1.759 petaflops using 224,162 ...
The Met Office is to take delivery of a 140-tonne £97m Cray supercomputer in a bid to improve the accuracy of its weather forecasts and yield £2bn worth of socio-economic benefits in the process.