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Time For A Cray Comeback?

Posted by simoniker on from the cray-cray-come-again-another-day dept.

Boone^ writes "The New York Times has an article (free reg. req.) talking about Cray Inc.'s recent resurgence in the realm of supercomputing. It discusses a bit of Cray's decline when the Cold War ended, "the occupation" under SGI, and the rebirth of the company after the Tera (now Cray Inc.) purchase. Recently Cray Inc. has been shipping their vector-based Cray X1 machine, designing ASCI Red Storm, and recently was one of 3 (also Sun, IBM) to win a large DARPA contract (PDF link) to design and develop a PetaFlops machine by 2010. Could Cray Inc. be poised for a comeback? Wall Street seems to think so."

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  1. Petaflops by 2010? by Pope+Raymond+Lama · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course I expect that...in my Playstation IV,
    equipped with an opto-quantic Emotion Engine VI
    and a couple petabytes of holographic storage.

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  2. 2010? by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a whole bunch of PETAFlops outside of McDonalds right now having a sit in and screaming about how fur is murder.

    I had to literally step on their faces to get a Big Mac.

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  3. Re:explain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    can someone explain to me what the benefit of a moving van is compared to buying a fleet of pintos?

  4. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong ... by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then there's the question of ... what do you need a supercomputer for? The applications are pretty limited for a need for a petaflop computer, unless your doing mass storage, cryptography (cracking), or simulations.


    You're missing the big picture...

    Massive multiplayer Quake on a 614,400 x 819,200 screen.

    Thank you Cray.

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