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Cray Inc. to Announce 2011 Full Year and Fourth Quarter Financial Results on Monday, February 27 |
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Edinburgh-based supercomputers ‘could tackle climate change - ScotlandIS
www.scotlandis.com | Feb 14, 2012
Edinburgh-based supercomputers ‘could tackle climate change

Intel's Plan to Remain the Supercomputing King - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD
allthingsd.com | Nov 15, 2011
It's been a big week for supercomputing, and for Intel, whose chips run nearly 80 percent of the worlds 500 most powerful computers. Today the company is disclosing some new advances that will help it maintain its role as the chip supplier of choice to the supercomputing elite.

Digits Live Show: A Social Media ETF; Buffet's IBM Investment; the Supercomputer Race - Digits - WSJ
blogs.wsj.com | Nov 14, 2011
Investors in the first exchange-traded fund for social media will not only buy into Groupon, LinkedIn and similar companies, but will also get significant international exposure.

Supercomputer with ARM Processors Being Built in Spain - Datamation
www.datamation.com | Nov 14, 2011
The new supercomputer won't be among the world's fastest, but it might be among the world's greenest.

With the Launch of “Interlagos,” Cray Boasts the AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series Processors within
blogs.amd.com | Nov 14, 2011
It is clear that Cray, and our Cray XE6 and Cray XK6 customers, are very excited about the new AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processor. In fact, we have already issued a number of Interlagos announcements with various supercomputing centers around the world, including plans to upgrade to Cray systems at

Technology News: Chips: AMD Breaks New Ground With FX Bulldozer Processors
www.technewsworld.com | Oct 14, 2011
Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled its FX Series family of processors, which includes two it heralds as the first eight-core desktop CPUs. These are the first processors available in retail that use AMD's new Bulldozer multicore architecture. The FX processors are priced at between $115 and $245.

NewsFactor Network | Cray Plans Supercomputer Upgrade at Oak Ridge
www.newsfactor.com | Oct 11, 2011
Cray has inked a deal with the federal government to make a faster, better supercomputer for the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The $97 million contract empowers Cray to upgrade the Cray XT5 supercomputer, also known as Jaguar, to a Cray XK6 supercomputer that will go

Charles Seitz Named Recipient of 2011 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
www.prweb.com | Oct 5, 2011
Known for creating new disciplines of digital design, Seitz was recognized “for innovations in high-performance message-passing architectures and networks.”

IBM and NCSA scrap project to build petaflop-speed supercomputer
www.computerweekly.com | Aug 9, 2011
IBM and the University of Illinois's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have called a halt to a $308m project to build one of the world's fastest supercomputers, citing unforeseen cost and complexity.