Dubbed the ‘Typhoon,’ this sample was installed at Edinburgh University and listed in the TOP500 as Europe’s fastest supercomputer in June 1996.

One of the machines - which weighs about four tonnes - was worth more than £29m in the 1990s.

SAN FRANCISCO--Burton Smith, a longtime supercomputer designer and chief scientist at Cray, has resigned to take a position at Microsoft. Smith was a founder of Tera Computer, which in 2000 acquired ...

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 ...

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 any ...

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 ...

Cray announced on Thursday a new supercomputer that will leave its fastest counterparts in the dust. The maker of supercomputers, based in Seattle, says its X1 will offer up to 52.4 teraflops, or ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - "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 ...

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 ...

It is wild to think about, but the mobile devices we carry in our pockets and hold in the palms of our hands today are orders of magnitude more powerful than some of the original computers — ...

In the race for the most powerful computers, Fugaku, a Japanese supercomputer, recently beat American and Chinese machines. By Don Clark The price was relatively small, but the deal may have a big ...