Big data heralds return of the Cray supercomputer

By Bill Rigby SEATTLE (Reuters) - "Big data" means big computers, and good news for Cray Inc. The pioneer of supercomputers in the 1970s stood on the brink of obscurity 20 years ago but is now surging back to prominence. Its shares have almost doubled over the past 12 months. The explosion of data - measuring weather, traffic, health and countless other areas - coupled with a desire to tease meaning out of it, demands greater computing power than is accessible via standard machines. "The assumption was that supercomputers were cliche five years ago. ...



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