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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. Re:Icon is back by PsychoI3oy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    could i have a beowulf cluster consisting of an athlon 1.1, a celeron 500, and my wife's k6-2 450?

    i understand the concept of clustering but i've never really read anything about it other than stuff here on /. what kind of processing power would i have between these 3 machines? ~a 2ghz athlon or p4? (that's just adding the MHz together) or is it a more geometric equation such that it'd be faster than a 3ghz p4?

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  2. Oh come on now, slashdot. by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    85 replies, even the trolls, and not one "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these" post.

    Can't a guy count on slashdot for anything anymore?

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