Cray Research Inc. introduced the Cray-2S computer systems, a new range of Cray-2 supercomputers that offer overall system performance up to 40 percent greater than the original Cray-2 system.

The original Cray-1 supercomputer, released in 1976. (Courtesy: Cray) Cray will try and reinvent itself for the cloud era with a new product that promises “supercomputing as a service.” Cray ...

Seymour Cray's first computer, the Cray 1, debuted in 1976, and was the embodiment of all the power that crackled around the supercomputer. It weighed 10,500 pounds. Thirty humans were necessary ...

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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 ...

The original Cray supercomputer, the Cray-1, is an iconic piece of computing history, so big it had a ring of padded seats around which engineers could sit and contemplate esoteric questions of ...

The Cray-1 was the fastest supercomputer in 1976. Today, even the iPad dwarfs its humble 133 megaflops and a fast PC can easily surpass 100 gigaflops.

It's absolutely astonishing how fast computer technology has progressed in the last 30 years. "When benchmarking the Apple iPad 2, the University of Tennessee employee achieved 4 GFLOPS per Watt ...

"Big data" means big computers, and good news for Cray Inc. The pioneer of supercomputers in the 1970s stood on the brink of obscurity 20 years ago but is now surging back to prominence. Its ...

In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds, and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far ...

The word supercomputer gets thrown around quite a bit. The original Cray-1, for example, operated at about 150 MIPS and had about eight megabytes of memory. A modern Intel i7 CPU can hit almost 250… ...