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Cray Runs The Exascale Table In The United States

August 13, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

After a long wait, now we know. All three of the initial exascale-class supercomputer systems being funded by the US Department of Energy through its CORAL-2 procurement are going to be built by Cray, with that venerable maker of supercomputers being the prime contractor on two of them. …

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Cray, AMD Tag Team On 1.5 Exaflops “Frontier” Supercomputer

May 7, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

The competition for the compute engines in hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer systems is heating up, and it is beginning to look a bit like back to the future with Cray on the rise and AMD also revitalized. …

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Bidders Off And Running After $1.8 Billion DOE Exascale Super Deals

April 9, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Supercomputer makers have been on their exascale marks, and they have been getting ready, and now the US Department of Energy has just said “Go!” …

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