Info HPE to Acquire Supercomputer Maker Cray, Take on IBM

[Lucian Armasu]

Hewlett Packard Enterpris will acquire the supercomputer maker Cray for $35 per share in cash, or about $1.3 billion in total.

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[kanewolf]

SGI and Cray back together again ...

 

[bit_user]

Future High Performance Computing-as-a-Service and artificial intelligence / machine learning analytics through HPE GreenLake

I'm just imagining a big lake that's green from all the algae whose growth is accelerated by the waste heat from their datacenter. After a few expansion & upgrade cycles, it could turn into DryLake.

 

[bit_user]

I'd imagine another reason AMD benefits is that Nvidia has Mellanox and Intel has OmniPath. To the extent Cray is now mainly about interconnects, it brings less value to a partnership with Blue or Green.

BTW, Redhat (which IBM bought) has been making a lot of contributions to the open source driver for Nvidia GPUs. I don't know if they contribute as much to AMD's open source driver, since a lot of that work is actually done by AMD.