HPE to Buy Cray for $1.3B

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-buy-cray-14963613

by arcanus • 7 years ago

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rpiguy• 7 years ago

Cray is such a niche player and totally dependent upon government spending.

I can only see this is a play by HPE to get more government contracts.

Sad what has become of HPE. What happened to Moonshot? What happened to their super memristor?

joehandzik• 7 years ago

There are all sorts of synergies here that might not be obvious:

1. Slingshot interconnect enables HPE to offer their own high performance fabric. This is important as NVIDIA scoops up Mellanox. 2. Cray is clearly ahead of HPE in exascale systems. Cray's tech along with HPE's supply chain should make the exascale even more 'real'. 3. Cray picked up Xyratex a year or two ago in a deal to expand their Lustre solution capabilities. HPE has been growing their Lustre capabilities as well, but this launches both companies into a position to better compete with DDN in the future. 4. Cray + SGI reunites the IP from the original 'Cray' supercomputing company.

Moonshot turned into HPE's Edgeline product. You got me on memristor, but those were sins of previous company leadership. Antonio has proven to be a fairly realistic leader so far, IMO.

HPE to Buy Cray for $1.3B

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