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[Chris Fenton] spent a year and a half constructing a 1/10th scale Cray-1 reproduction. The famous supercomputer was meticulously modelled in a field programmable gate array for a “nearly ...
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A History of Supercomputers
Seymour Cray, peeking out from behind a Cray-1 supercomputer. Credit: Michael Hicks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Like ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled Friday its intent to acquire global supercomputer innovator Cray for approximately $1.3 billion in a move to take high-performance computing (HPC) to the next ...
Our Father of the Supercomputer biography tells his story including why the Cray-1 Supercomputer was referred to as “the world’s most expensive loveseat.” For even more Cray-1 inspiration ...
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What Is a Supercomputer?
Wiring everything up and getting it to work. In 2013, Roy Longbottom, a retired UK Government Central Computer Agency ...
Powered by the HPE Cray EX supercomputer featuring AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct GPU accelerators, the compute performance of 13.5 PFlop/s will provide a magnificent boost to computational ...
The Met Office is to take delivery of a 140-tonne £97m Cray supercomputer in a bid to improve the accuracy of its weather forecasts and yield £2bn worth of socio-economic benefits in the process.
The term "supercomputing" has a long history. It was first recorded around 1930 to refer to "statistical machines" at Columbia University "with the mental power of 100 skilled mathematicians.