Highlights from today’s top stories. Subscribe here to receive this rundown daily. Satya Nadella owns a soccer team. At least, he owns a piece of one. An all-star roster of Seattle tech… Read More
Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy, capable of conducting 3D simulations at unprecedented speeds to better… Read More
Cray decided to sell its supercomputing business to HPE for $1.3 billion last week in part because it was worried about the long-term impact of cloud providers like Amazon Web… Read More
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… Read More
Seattle marketing tech startup New Engen added Ryan Turner as vice president of marketing. Turner comes from Amazon, where he was global head of integrated social media. Before that, he… Read More
The first U.S. supercomputer capable of processing 1 quintillion calucations each second will be built for the U.S. Department of Energy by Intel and Cray, the two companies announced Monday.… Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory staked its claim to retake the lead from China in the world’s supercomputer race with a machine capable of performing 200… Read More
The strongest effort yet to see server processors based on Arm cores infiltrate the data center is well underway, and Cray announced plans Monday to add powerful 64-bit Arm processors… Read More
Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to an exclusive partnership between Cray and Microsoft, the companies announced… Read More
We’re less than two weeks away from the 2017 GeekWire Summit, taking place Oct. 9-11 in downtown Seattle. Hundreds of people are already registered for this one-of-a-kind event, which will… Read More
Seattle supercomputer maker Cray plans to cut 190 jobs, representing about 14 percent of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring plan meant to cut costs. In a filing… Read More
Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to announce Wednesday that it will distribute $258 million in funding… Read More
Cray will try and reinvent itself for the cloud era with a new product that promises “supercomputing as a service.” Cray, based in Seattle, unveiled the new Cray Urika-GX service… Read More
Cray, the Seattle supercomputer maker, announced a new addition to its leadership team: tech veteran Stathis Papaefstathiou has joined the company as its senior vice president of research and development.… Read More
Supercomputer-maker Cray Inc. today reported diminished revenue and a big though anticipated loss for the quarter ended June 30. CEO Peter Ungaro declared in a statement that “I do not believe our leadership… Read More
Supercomputing firm Cray is working with consultancy Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services to offer a subscription service intended to protect organizations against intrusion, leaks and threats to the integrity of… Read More
Supercomputer maker Cray is moving its St. Paul, Minn. offices to a new office complex on the Mall of America campus. The Seattle-based company is leasing 87,500 square feet in… Read More
—Joanna Lord, the Seattle startup veteran who has led marketing teams for Porch, Big Door and Moz, has moved on from the Emerald City. She’s now working for New York-based ClassPass as the fitness membership… Read More
—ExtraHop, the Seattle-based IT operations analytics company, has appointed Mark Anderson to its board of directors. Anderson is the executive VP of worldwide field operations for Palo Alto Networks, an online security company. His focus… Read More
Seattle-based supercomputer company, Cray Inc., posted fourth quarter profits of $20.3 million today and revenue of $267.5 million, beating analyst expectations of $263.4 million. Compared to the fourth quarter of last year, revenue… Read More
The meteorologists at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts have chosen Seattle-based Cray for their latest computers, the company announced today. The weather authority based in Reading, UK, signed a $36 million… Read More
Supercomputer maker Cray has secured a $6 million contract with the Danish Meteorological Institute to provide massive computing power that enables more accurate weather forecasts. The new system will result in… Read More
Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray today announced a four-year, $53 million deal with the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia. Cray will provide its XC40 supercomputer and Sonexion 200 storage system to… Read More
—True Ventures founder Jon Callaghan has been appointed the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. Callaghan, who currently serves as a general partner at True, will be taking over… Read More
Out of the 28 Major League Baseball teams competing today on “Opening Day,” there are a handful of squads using data and analytics to gain an advantage on the diamond. However, only one is… Read More
Cray announced today that it will be providing Petroleum Geo-Services with a massive five-petaflop XC40 supercomputer and Sonexion 2000 storage array in a deal that the company calls one of… Read More
Supercomputing company Cray had good news for investors today. The Seattle-based firm brought in $261.9 million in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2014, above analyst expectations of $260 million… Read More
It was a busy year for publicly-traded tech companies in the Seattle region, with plenty of winners and losers. The region’s two heavyweight tech titans produced opposite results on Wall… Read More
Cray Inc. today landed a $30 million deal with the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the latest in a string of large deals for the Seattle maker of… Read More
—Yammer co-founder David Sacks has been named the Chief Operating Officer at Zenefits. As COO, all operations, finance and product teams will report to Sacks. The news comes a little more than… Read More