The Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain has unveiled a 1:1 scale visual replica of the famous Cray-1 supercomputer from 1976. Instead of sourcing expensive, cutting-edge tech to run the ...

A Cray-1 supercomputer built between 1976 and 1978 sold at Christie's in September 2024 for $1,020,600, including fees. The machine had been estimated at $150,000 to $250,000 before the auction, but ...

In 1976, Seymour Cray designed and Cay Research, Inc. released the Cray-1 supercomputer, said to be ten times more powerful than any other computer in the world. In 1985, the company released the Cray ...

A plethora of notable early computers from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen are to be put up for auction. Auction house Christie's is putting up hundreds of items across three sales ...

The United States Mint has unveiled the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, immortalizing key figures and machines that defined our modern digital age. Among the four coins to be ...

It's not Xgrid, but a computing museum in Spain has recreated a Cray-1 supercomputer to a 1:1 scale, using a total of 30 Intel Mac minis to generate up to 1.5 teraflops of performance. Sometimes, ...

Last time, we talked about connecting computers to share the workload. From here on, let's take a little peek into the world ...

Original Crays ran COS (Cray Operating System). When the Cray 2 shipped, it ran UNIX ("UNICOS"), a derivative of Bell Labs System V UNIX. After that, a slightly different UNICOS shipped for use on ...