"Seymour Cray was born in 1925 here in Chippewa," said Showalter. His dad was the city engineer and let him experiment with ...

Basically, the guy was a genius. He was involved in everything. It wasn’t just the design of the computer.” That is how many people who knew Seymour Cray, the Chippewa Falls-born supercomputer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chippewa Valley owes much of its high-tech success to a hometown boy who grew up to become the father of supercomputing. Much like Reuben Trane started heating and air conditioning manufacturing ...

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire -08/15/12)- Building upon the Company's commitment to its Adaptive Supercomputing vision, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (CRAY) today announced that its next-generation ...

SEATTLE, Sept. 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced that the Yokohama City University in Japan has put a Cray® XC50-AC™ supercomputer into ...

The rumors are finally true. Seattle-based Cray Inc. has signed a lease for 51,052 square feet of space at Galtier Plaza in downtown St. Paul. The deal, perhaps the most poorly kept secret in downtown ...

It's official: Cray Inc. is moving more than 200 employees to downtown St. Paul. After months of speculation, the supercomputer company signed a 10 1/2-year lease last week for 51,100 square feet of ...

Supercomputing is all about pushing out the leading edge of computer speed and performance. The sports metaphors that arise as research sites compete to create the fastest supercomputer sometimes ...

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 ...