The Custom Engineering team was formed at Cray to help the company capitalize on its smarts. The idea is that the company has banked a lot of specialized experience related to datacenters and building ...

the Cray-1 remains one of the most recognizable computers in history; it is a timeless icon of pure supercomputer badassery. Custom case builder [Daryl Brach] pays homage to this classic with his ...

The CPU is a unique, custom device that is not based on the impending “Rome ... In fact, keeping this fat node approach for compute and coherency was critical for Oak Ridge, so AMD and Cray really had ...

The fastest commercial supercomputer in public operation today, IBM's BlueGene/L, uses 65,536 custom PowerPC cores to achieve 367 teraflops, or around a third of a petaflops. Cray said that the ...

while Frontier will use the Cray Shasta architecture encompassing purpose-built Radeon Instinct GPUs and AI-optimised, custom Epyc CPUs. In particular, Frontier will use a 4:1 GPU-to-CPU ratio ...

SRC Computers, which is based in Colorado Springs, takes its name from Seymour Roger Cray’s initials and was co-founded by ... and because its volumes were not high enough to justify a custom ASIC for ...

Supercomputers made by Cray Research of Mendota Heights, Minn., and by Stardent Computer Systems of Sunnyvale, Calif., have been given the first Bell-Perfect Award for supercomputing performance ...

The first Cray computer, the Cray-1, was less than a thousandth the speed of an iPhone XS and had 8 MB of memory (0.2% of the iPhone’s memory). It cost just under $9 million ($33 million in ...

What he didn't specifically mention but was clear to see behind him in the keynote slide was the fact that Vera sports not just Arm CPU cores, but a "custom" Arm CPU core design known as Olympus.

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 ...