Cray has secured a potential $600M contract from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to build and deliver a supercomputing platform to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California by late 2022. DOE said Tuesday researchers will use the "El Capitan" exascale computer to study methods for nuclear weapons stockpile maintenance, as well as conduct data-heavy simulations and calculations.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has agreed to acquire Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) for approximately $1.3B in cash, or $35 per share, in a move to expand high-performance computing technology offerings. HPE said Friday it expects the deal to conclude by the first quarter of its fiscal year 2020 and to …

Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) has received a potential $600M contract from the Department of Energy to develop an artificial intelligence-based computing machine that can offer analytics and machine learning for national security, energy, healthcare and manufacturing applications. DOE said Tuesday it expects the “Frontier” supercomputer to roll out at the Oak …

The Department of Energy selected a team of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and Cray (Nasdaq: CRAY) to build and deliver a supercomputing system to DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago by 2021 under a contract worth more than $500M. DOE said Monday the Aurora machine is designed to integrate exaFLOP computational capacity …

Cray has signed a $146M contract with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to build a supercomputing system intended for large-scale simulations and data analyses. The Perlmutter supercomputer is designed to help NERSC researchers examine data sets from scientific experiments, the Energy Department said Tuesday. NERSC Director Sudip …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 9, 2017 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has collaborated with Cray to develop multilevel security platforms that work to protect information technology systems while supporting various workloads, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Cray said Wednesday the strategic alliance aims to market and sell MLS offerings such as the Cray CS cluster supercomputers …

Jeff McCray, former vice president of international business development at BAE Systems, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) to serve in the same role and lead a new office that HII will open in Canberra, Australia. He will report to Mike Smith, executive VP for strategy and development at HII, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2016 — Deloitte has partnered with Cray to offer a cyber analytics service for government agencies that works to generate threat intelligence for the discovery, analysis and response to cyber threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The subscription-based Cyber Reconnaissance and Analytics service utilizes Cray’s Urika-GX analytics platform and …

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Cray (NASDAQ: CRAY) will collaborate with the Energy Department to build a new $200 million supercomputing system at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois for research into solar, wind and biofuel energy technologies. Franklin Orr, energy undersecretary for science and energy, said Wednesday that the department and the companies …

IBM has been selected to upgrade the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s supercomputing system for forecasting. Cray has also partnered with IBM for the work to expand the capacity of NOAA’s two operational supercomputers to 2.5 petaflops by October 2015, the agency said Monday. “These capabilities enable NOAA experts and researchers to make forecasts …