Samsung Semiconductor Inc. today announced that it will supply Cray Inc. with Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) for the Cray X1 supercomputer. Cray said it expects X1, which is being formally launched today, to be ...

The supercomputer specialist announces a multimillion-dollar deal to acquire OctigaBay, which makes cluster machines based on AMD's Opteron chip--a boost for the processor. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

With 4 Opteron CPUs and 4 Nvidia Tesla GPUs, the XK6 is capable of producing 3 teraflops per blade, 80 teraflops per cabinet, for a grand total of 35 petaflops in a single supercomputer. Share on ...

The Cray CX1 supercomputer uses up to eight nodes and 16 Intel Xeon processors — either dual-core or quad-core. It’s the first Cray machine to use Intel processors. The CX1 has up to 4 terabytes of ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 (Reuters) - Microprocessor giant Intel Corp has struck a deal with supercomputer maker Cray Inc to bolster Intel's share of the market for the highest of high-end computers, ...

Supercomputer specialist Cray has signed a deal to acquire OctigaBay, a maker of special-purpose computers that are based on Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor. Seattle-based Cray announced on ...