Company type | Subsidiary |
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Founded | 1972 Cray Research, Inc. (current corporate entity founded in 1987 as Tera Computer Company) | as
Founder | Seymour Cray |
Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Key people | Peter Ungaro (CEO) |
Products | Supercomputers |
Revenue | $455.9 million (2018) |
-$74.2 million (2018) | |
-$71.6 million (2018) | |
Total assets | $517.1 million (2018) |
Total equity | $343.3 million (2018) |
Number of employees | 1,282 (Dec 2015) |
Parent | Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
Website | cray |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4][5] |
Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington.[2] It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics.[6] Several Cray supercomputer systems are listed in the TOP500, which ranks the most powerful supercomputers in the world.[7]
In 1972, the company was founded by computer designer Seymour Cray as Cray Research, Inc., and it continues to manufacture parts in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where Cray was born and raised.[8][9][10] After being acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1996, the modern company was formed after being purchased in 2000 by Tera Computer Company, which adopted the name Cray Inc.[11] In 2019, the company was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion.[12]