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1. Cray to build an almost-Petaflop supercomputer for the University of Tennessee

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     The University of Tennessee (UT) has received a $65 million grant from the National Science Foundation Supercomputing for a next-generation computing system and will spend the money on a Cray system ...

2. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... an inertial mindset, one acting in direct opposition to the early team's efforts, against the need for the new fangled technology idea. However, it wasn't long after their first machine, a Cray ...

3. Former Cray chief scientist joins Microsoft as "technical fellow"

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... to expand the reach of the Windows operating system into the supercomputer arena, Microsoft is adding staff to support its new effort. Burton J. Smith, the former chief scientist and board member of Cray, ...

4. Cray chief scientist to join Microsoft

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

     Supercomputer vendor Cray Inc has announced that its chief scientist is to leave the company to take up a new position at Microsoft. Supercomputer vendor Cray Inc has announced that its chief scientist ...

5. IBM to build Supercomputers

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   ... operations a second - by the end of this decade. The supercomputer industry hit a low in the 1990s with the advent of decentralized processing in smaller servers and networks. Cray Inc. has reportedly ...

6. NASA to okay space tourist

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   ... logic, both invented decades ago but now gaining support. Multi-threading was pioneered by Burton Smith, Cray's chief scientist, and applied to mass-market microprocessors by researchers at the University ...