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Today on GeekWire: Satya and the Sounders; Cray goes nuclear; new Seattle startup fundings

Highlights from today’s top stories. Subscribe here to receive this rundown daily. Satya Nadella owns a soccer team. At least, he owns… Read More

Cray to develop insanely fast $600M ‘El Capitan’ supercomputer for U.S. nuclear simulations

Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy,… Read More

Cray CEO on HPE deal: ‘Massive cloud vendors’ threatened our long-term survival in supercomputing

Cray decided to sell its supercomputing business to HPE for $1.3 billion last week in part because it was worried… Read More

Cray Shasta supercomputing

HPE will acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in merger of storied tech brands

HPE is doubling down on the supercomputing game, announcing plans Friday to acquire Seattle’s Cray for $1.3 billion in a… Read More

Tech Moves: New Engen lands marketing chief; Cray hires product exec; Tableau exec joins Qumulo board; and more

Seattle marketing tech startup New Engen added Ryan Turner as vice president of marketing. Turner comes from Amazon, where he… Read More

Cray, Intel will build the first U.S. “exascale” supercomputer for the Department of Energy

The first U.S. supercomputer capable of processing 1 quintillion calucations each second will be built for the U.S. Department of… Read More

U.S. makes its pitch to wrest the world’s supercomputer top spot from China

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory staked its claim to retake the lead from China in the… Read More

Seattle’s Cray jumps on Arm server train with new XC50 supercomputer

The strongest effort yet to see server processors based on Arm cores infiltrate the data center is well underway, and… Read More

Cray teams up with Microsoft to offer Azure customers new supercomputing options

Microsoft Azure cloud computing customers that would like to tap into true supercomputing power have a new option thanks to… Read More

GeekWire Summit: Event app released, new immigration speaker series added

We’re less than two weeks away from the 2017 GeekWire Summit, taking place Oct. 9-11 in downtown Seattle. Hundreds of… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray cutting 14% of workforce, 190 jobs, seeking to save $25M per year

Seattle supercomputer maker Cray plans to cut 190 jobs, representing about 14 percent of its global workforce, as part of… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More

Cray now an official member of Cloud City with new “supercomputing as a service” strategy

Cray will try and reinvent itself for the cloud era with a new product that promises “supercomputing as a service.”… Read More

Tech Moves: Cray hires new SVP of R&D; RealSelf adds former Amazon, Microsoft execs; and more

Cray, the Seattle supercomputer maker, announced a new addition to its leadership team: tech veteran Stathis Papaefstathiou has joined the… Read More

A Cray XC30 supercomputer

Supercomputer stalwart Cray reports declining revenue, big loss in quarter ended June 30

Supercomputer-maker Cray Inc. today reported diminished revenue and a big though anticipated loss for the quarter ended June 30. CEO Peter… Read More

Cray and Deloitte harnessing supercomputers to help organizations fend off intruders

Supercomputing firm Cray is working with consultancy Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services to offer a subscription service intended to protect… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray goes to the mall, leases 87,500sf in Mall of America office building

Supercomputer maker Cray is moving its St. Paul, Minn. offices to a new office complex on the Mall of America… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle startup vet Joanna Lord heads to NYC, former Coinstar CFO joins Cray board, and more

—Joanna Lord, the Seattle startup veteran who has led marketing teams for Porch, Big Door and Moz, has moved on from the Emerald… Read More

Tech Moves: ExtraHop names Palo Alto Networks exec to board; Pincus steps down as CEO of Zynga; Cray snags CMO

—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… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray posts $20.3 million profit for Q4

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… Read More

Cray wins $36M supercomputer contract for European weather predictions

The meteorologists at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts have chosen Seattle-based Cray for their latest computers, the company announced… Read More

Cray supercomputers to power more than 60% of world’s weather forecasts after landing Danish deal

Supercomputer maker Cray has secured a $6 million contract with the Danish Meteorological Institute to provide massive computing power that enables… Read More

News Brief

Cray inks $53M supercomputer deal with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology

Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray today announced a four-year, $53 million deal with the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia. Cray will… Read More

Tech Moves: True Ventures founder named NVCA chair, F5 names HR head, and more

—True Ventures founder Jon Callaghan has been appointed the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. Callaghan, who currently serves… Read More

Baseball analytics: Mystery MLB team uses a Cray supercomputer to help win more games

Out of the 28 Major League Baseball teams competing today on “Opening Day,” there are a handful of squads using data and analytics to… Read More

Cray lands deal to provide 5 petaflop supercomputer to Petroleum Geo-Services

Cray announced today that it will be providing Petroleum Geo-Services with a massive five-petaflop XC40 supercomputer and Sonexion 2000 storage… Read More

Cray beats Wall Street expectations with $262M in revenue

Supercomputing company Cray had good news for investors today. The Seattle-based firm brought in $261.9 million in revenue during the… Read More

The best and worst performing tech stocks of 2014 in the Seattle area

It was a busy year for publicly-traded tech companies in the Seattle region, with plenty of winners and losers. The… Read More

Supercomputer maker Cray inks $30M deal with Department of Defense

Cray Inc. today landed a $30 million deal with the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the latest in… Read More

Tech Moves: Yammer founder lands at Zenefits, Concur CFO joins Limeade board

—Yammer co-founder David Sacks has been named the Chief Operating Officer at Zenefits. As COO, all operations, finance and product teams… Read More

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