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News about Cray

• HPE to buy supercomputer maker in US$1.3B deal

  HPE is set to acquire s​upercomputer manufacturer Cray in a deal valued at about US$1.3 billion

• Microsoft and Cray partner up to serve supercomputers in Azure

  The deal will see Cray offer up its dedicated supercomputing systems in Microsoft’s Azure data centres

• China retains supercomputing crown in latest Top 500 ranking

  The U.S. is close to an all-time low number of machines in the list

• US challenges China in supercomputing race with upcoming 180-petaflop system

  It's a U.S. Department of Energy supercomputer called Aurora, which will be deployed in 2018

• NOAA's next supercomputer will be a Cray-IBM hybrid system

  The National Weather Service has updated one of its forecasting models, and is testing it on a more powerful Cray-IBM hybrid supercomputer

• Weather forecasting made (slightly) easier with updated NOAA system

  The National Weather Service could offer more accurate long-term forecasts by October

Features about Cray

• The top 10 supercomputers in the world, 20 years ago

  The Top500 list from June 1995 shows just how far the possibilities of silicon have come in the past 20 years. Performance figures are listed ...

• China likely to become No. 1 in supercomputing this week

  With 3.1 million cores and the ability to run at speeds of 55 petaflops, the Tianhe-2 is expected to take first place on the Top500 ...