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• Cray courts the big-data market

  Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind of client for the company.

• Tablet Accessories Tech Treasures [2011 Cool Yule Tools]

  While last year may have been the year of the tablet (with the introduction/invasion of the iPad), this year certainly qualifies as the year of the tablet accessory. Whether it’s a case, a pillow, stand or speaker system, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite devices to go along with our favorite tablets:

• Cray to build supercomputer with new AMD chips

  Cray Inc. is building a supercomputer for federally funded scientific research under a contract valued at $188 million that was originally won by IBM .

• Cray to Build 20-Petaflop System

  The global race for ever-faster supercomputers is getting a new entry.

• Cray building $97 million supercomputer for U.S.

  The never-ending global push to build ever faster supercomputers took another step today with Cray's announcement that it was awarded a contract from U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to build a system that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second.

• Japan takes back first place on Top 500 supercomputer list

  A Japanese computer has taken first place on the Top 500 supercomputer list, ending China's reign at the top after just six months. At 8.16 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second), the K computer is more powerful than the next five systems combined.

• Cray debuts GPU-augmented supercomputers

  Supercomputer manufacturer Cray will be offering the option of using GPUs in its next generation of high-performance computing systems, the company announced Tuesday.

• New servers feature Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 processors

  Top manufacturers including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Cray have announced new high-end servers sporting Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 series of chips, which were announced on Tuesday.

• DSD gets Cray supercomputer

  The agency responsible for combating cyber security threats to Australia, the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), has taken charge of a Cray Inc supercomputer.

• Australia's supercomputer ranking slipping

  Only one Australian supercomputer has made it onto a list of the Top 500 announced at the SC09 forum in US this week.

• U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup

  The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought a second, identical system as a backup.

• IBM, Cray lead Top 500 supercomputer rankings

  The world's two most powerful computers have not been surpassed in 2009, but the latest edition of the Top 500 supercomputer list shows a new entry in third place and continued dominance from the likes of IBM, Cray, HP and Intel.

• Cray's Jaguar may be world's fastest computer

  About five months after IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer became the fastest computer in the world, Cray Inc.'s XT Jaguar could dethrone it next week.