Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced that it has inked a $1.3 billion deal to acquire Cray Inc., a move poised to catapult the company to the forefront of the growing supercomputing market.

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 ...

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 ...

The megaflop-busting Cray-1 made computing history back in 1976. Crave's Nerdy New Mexico arrives in the atomic city of Los Alamos to meet up with with this supercomputing classic. Freelance writer ...

(TNS) — It’s been called the geek’s Valhalla. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the world’s largest collection of computing artifacts, boasts such innovations as ENIAC, the electronic whiz ...

Chris Fenton has created a terrific gadget: Historically significant, terrific attention paid to fit and finish, and completely useless. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. For unexplained ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a CRAY-1, an early example of ...

When you think of a supercomputer, what do you see in your mind's eye? A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC? A sinister emergent ...

Forward-looking: The Frontier supercomputing system will be built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and will be more than 5 times faster than the current world's fastest computer. In a joint ...