Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multimillion dollar machines that easily take up a football field — with miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors.

Supercomputer maker Cray landed a $250 million U.S. government contract to continue developing a system it hopes will set new standards for high-performance computing. The Seattle company has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Standing on the corner of Fourth and Madison in downtown Seattle, you’d never guess what people are building in the sedate office tower that looms over the Bartell Drugs store. It happens to be the ...

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 ...

The SEC announced today it has ordered a halt to trading in 379 "dormant" shell companies to prevent them from being "hijacked by fraudsters" and used in pump-and-dump schemes. Among them are some of ...

Cray Inc. last week unveiled a $25,000 desktop supercomputer that it developed with Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. The Cray CX1, which runs the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system, uses up to ...