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Cray wins British nuclear weapons deal

January 25, 2006 Cray has sold an XT3 supercomputer to the U.K.'s Atomic Weapons Establishment. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, AMD Opteron, weapon, AMD, U.K.

Cray names CFO amid accounting issue

May 23, 2005 Brian Henry takes over as Cray's CFO while the supercomputer maker tries to keep its stock from being delisted from the Nasdaq market. TAGS: Cray Inc., CFO, supercomputer, accounting

Sun knocked out of DARPA supercomputer project

November 22, 2006 IBM and Cray each get multimillion-dollar awards to keep working on completing supercomputers, but Sun is left out of the running. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, supercomputing, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., U.S.

NEC announces new vector supercomputer

October 18, 2006 Japanese company announces SX-8R machines, a vector system tailored for mathematical operations. TAGS: Cray Inc., Japanese company, NEC Electronics Corp., supercomputer

Cray to cut 8 percent of employees

December 26, 2005 Cray plans to cut 65 jobs, eliminating 8 percent of its staff by March 31, the supercomputer specialist disclosed in a regulatory filing. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, AMD Opteron

Linux Networx names top sales exec

March 31, 2005 Supercomputer maker has hired Rene Copeland to fill the newly created post of executive vice president for global sales and marketing. TAGS: Linux NetworX, supercomputer, Cray Inc., vice president of sales, executive vice president, exec

Linux Networx names new CEO

June 8, 2005 Company that sells supercomputers built from clusters of interconnected Linux servers names Robert "Bo" Ewald its new chief. TAGS: Linux NetworX, Cray Inc., Linux server, supercomputer, CEO, Linux, server

Supercomputer maker to buy Cray, change name

March 2, 2000 Tiny supercomputer firm Tera Computer plans to buy supercomputer behemoth Cray Research, acquired by SGI in 1996 and put up for sale last summer. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, Silicon Graphics Inc., supercomputing, acquisition, high-performance, sale, PC

Cray promotes exec, upgrades supercomputer

March 8, 2005 The promotion goes to Peter Ungaro, who takes over the presidential role formerly held by Chief Executive Jim Rottsolk. TAGS: Cray Inc., supercomputer, AMD Opteron, exec, IBM Corp., AMD, CEO

Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record

October 27, 2005 Blue Gene/L already is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the Top500 list that ranks such machines. TAGS: Blue Gene/L, supercomputer, teraflop, Cray Inc., IBM POWER5, supercomputing, IBM Corp., calculation

Cray to introduce new Opteron supercomputer

November 13, 2006 Supercomputer specialist will unveil the first step in a plan to converge four disparate hardware families. TAGS: Cray Inc., AMD Opteron, supercomputing, supercomputer, FPGA, HyperTransport, blade, AMD

Which supercomputers rule?

June 27, 2007 Latest top 500 ranking of the speedy machines includes old favorites like IBM's BlueGene/L, plus a few surprises. TAGS: teraflop, supercomputer, supercomputing, Cray Inc., benchmarking, Jaguar, x86 processor, Intel Itanium, IBM Corp., AMD, conference, Intel, HP
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