The U.S. Mint will feature Wisconsin's Cray-1 supercomputer on a $1 coin as part of the 2026 American Innovation program.The coin exhibits a stylized aerial view of the Cray-1 supercomputer ...

The megaflop-busting Cray-1 made computing history back in 1976. Crave's Nerdy New Mexico arrives in the atomic city of Los Alamos to meet up with with this supercomputing classic. Freelance writer ...

Seymour Cray’s big super computer was crazy. It’s signals between components had to be timed by trimming long cables up to 1/16th of an inch at a time by hand and was basically interwoven with a giant ...

Editor’s Note: This article is reproduced from Xcell Journal with the kind permission of Xilinx. The year was 1976. Disco was still popular, the Cold War was in full swing and I wouldn’t even be born ...

The Cray-1, released in 1976, was one of the most successful supercomputers of all time. The Freon-cooled computer was clocked at a heady 80MHz and capable of up to 250 megaflops -- much more than any ...

HPE is doubling down on the supercomputing game, announcing plans Friday to acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in a deal that links two iconic brands in computing history. The all-cash ...

YouTuber and Pi enthusiast Kevin McAleer has created a unique Raspberry Pi cluster inspired by the Cray 1 Supercomputer originally launched back in 1975 and pictured below. The Cray-1 was a ...

Back in August of 2010 the NYC Resistor blog had a post about Chris Fenton's a 1/10h scale Cray 1-A Supercomputer. Chris built the scale model to great detail, including wraparound pleather seating, a ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will be purchasing Cray to the tune of $1.3B. The deal represents a 17 percent premium over Cray's current stock price. Cray, of course, is Cray -- one of the leading ...

The original Cray supercomputer, the Cray-1, is an iconic piece of computing history, so big it had a ring of padded seats around which engineers could sit and contemplate esoteric questions of life ...

The Cray-1 was the fastest supercomputer in 1976. Today, even the iPad dwarfs its humble 133 megaflops and a fast PC can easily surpass 100 gigaflops. This Cray-1 replica houses two PCs, but it looks ...

I will be doing a series of articles from my trip to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Take a trip there and visit this amazing museum—it’s worth your time to roam through history. I ...