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A History of Supercomputers

First Supercomputer: CDC 6600 The CDC 6600, introduced by the Control Data Corporation, usually gets the nod as the first ...
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY) announced the launch of the Cray® Urika®-XC analytics software suite, bringing graph analytics, deep learning, and robust big data analytics tools ...
When you think of a supercomputer, what do you see in your mind's eye? A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC? A sinister emergent intelligence like HAL? Buildings full of GPUs, or maybe a single massive ...
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 ...
When you think of supercomputers, you probably think of vast air-controlled rooms crammed full of cabinets and illuminated by banks of flashing LEDs. The first Cray supercomputer, for instance, cost ...
A 17.7 petaflops supercomputer will be installed at the Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at the Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. Named Blueback after an eponymous US Navy submarine, the HPE ...