HPE to buy supercomputer maker Cray in $1.30 billion deal

Ugh.. guess I won't be seeing a successor to Cray CX1-iWS (via Dell) anytime soon. There goes my desktop super computing dreams.
 
modi123 said:
You and I both know that distributed super-asymmetrical super computing is really where the real money is at.
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What if you are doing distributed super-asymmetrical deep learning ULTRA computing. Super computing is such a 60's buzzword..
 
Uvaman2 said:
And I thought lower...
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Right, building supercomputers is a cutthroat business, and Cray has kept alive by cutting things down to he bare essentials: they just supply the interconnect.

The best interconnect on the planet is worthless unless someone wants to build a huge supercomputer, and there are multiple competitors out there for such high-performance system. That is why Cray has lost money the last two years.

I see this as a good deal for both companies - Cray can get the backing of a much bigger company to help absorb the turbulence, and HPE can finally have people start taking their high-end products seriously, after their tech investment was gutted by several previous CEOs.
 
Unreal. The computing godcompany of my teenage years, whose very name stoked total awe among all my nerdish, Tron-loving peers as nigh untouchable -- is now worth less than the average flappy bird app of the week?
 
odditory said:
Unreal. The computing godcompany of my teenage years, whose very name stoked total awe among all my nerdish, Tron-loving peers as nigh untouchable -- is now worth less than the average flappy bird app of the week?
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Because they didn't stay pre-revenue
 
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