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Everybody's focused on graph databases here but let's talk about Cray! One of the most forward-thinking computer technology companies ever to exist is starting
by AdamN 11y ago
Everybody's focused on graph databases here but let's talk about Cray! One of the most forward-thinking computer technology companies ever to exist is starting to get out there again. If they got a few hundred million dollars from an outside investor, they could do friggin' incredible things. They already do incredible things but not out there in the way it so easily could be.
- fulafel 11y agoCray is a brand name that has been passed around between half a dozen companies (including Sun and SGI) dotted by various kinds of product reboots and commercial failures. Cool stuff but supercomputing isn't the most financially sound business it seems. The current name holder is the company previously called Tera, originally famous for making an aggressively multithreaded HPC computer.
- mitchty 11y agoI'm not clear how Sun ever owned Cray care to explain? The provenance was Cray Research -> SGI -> Tera/Cray according to those that have been around since the Cray Research days. Source: err, I work here and asked a couple people a few cubes over. :) The Sun deal was apparently more SGI wouldn't be caught dead with a supercomputer that ran on sparc so it got sold off to Sun.
- pinewurst 11y ago"an aggressively multithreaded HPC computer" - still sold as Urika-GD, marketed as a dedicated graph appliance. That's where Cray Graph Engine originated.
- rrrrtttt 11y agoCray nowadays is purely a government contracting shop (think healthcare.gov in terms of technology chops).
- kendallgclark 11y agoWow. That's just patently false. Good job bro!