[Info-vax] HPE buys Cray

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
> via Info-vax
> Sent: May 17, 2019 7:23 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] HPE buys Cray
> 
> On 5/17/2019 2:34 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> > Not really OpenVMS related, but I just saw that HPE will buy Cray...
> >
> > https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3076006/hpe-buys-cray
> > https://www.cnet.com/news/hpe-to-acquire-supercomputer-maker-cray-
> for-
> > 1-3b/
> > https://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-buys-supercomputer-company-cray-
> for-
> > 1-3-billion/
> 
> I wonder - is this an indication that HPE is not looking top be acquired?
> 
> Maybe they realized that there are not many potential buyers, so now they
> want to stay independent.
> 
> Arne
> 


Getting Cray for only $1.3B looks like fire sale, so perhaps Cray was
hurting financially?

Also, remember that HPE bought SGI a year or two ago, so HPE appears to be
adopting a renewed focus on the super computer and high end data analysis
and AI market.

HPE-Cray:
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-buys-supercomputer-company-cray-for-1-3-b
illion/>

HPE-SGI:
<https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2017/03/hewlett-packard-en
terprise-completes-acquisition-of-sgi.html>

I was about to say "One company I am surprised that has not yet been
purchased by one of the big players is Mellanox. They make most of the very
high speed Infiniband, RDMA and ethernet interconnects used by the big
supercomputers."

<http://www.mellanox.com/page/ethernet_cards_overview> - check out 200GbE
adapters
"ConnectX-6 EN provides two ports of 200Gb/s for Ethernet connectivity,
sub-800 ns latency and 215 million messages per second, enabling the highest
performance and most flexible solution for the most demanding data center
applications."

Then I just discovered this on the Mellanox website:

March 11, 2019: NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9 Billion
<https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-mellanox-for-6-9-billi
on?nvid=nv-int-mxcn-78068>
"The acquisition will unite two of the world’s leading companies in high
performance computing (HPC). Together, NVIDIA’s computing platform and
Mellanox’s interconnects power over 250 of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers
and have as customers every major cloud service provider and computer maker.

The data and compute intensity of modern workloads in AI, scientific
computing and data analytics is growing exponentially and has put enormous
performance demands on hyperscale and enterprise datacenters. While
computing demand is surging, CPU performance advances are slowing as Moore’s
law has ended. This has led to the adoption of accelerated computing with
NVIDIA GPUs and Mellanox’s intelligent networking solutions."

Interesting times ...


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com