[Info-vax] HPE and supercomputing.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <r3uald$mhn$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> We won't touch the current Cray hardware (although we were once a very large
> customer of theirs) because the Cray interconnect is proprietary and while
> it may have lower latency than Infinband or Ethernet, it's not possible to
> run the Cray clusters without the Cray software distribution and that means
> paying through the nose for support.

In the old days, when you bought a Cray, didn't it come with pilots, 
i.e. people who ran it?