[Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

Chris Samuel chris at csamuel.org
Sat May 18 08:51:27 PDT 2019


On 17/5/19 8:31 am, Kilian Cavalotti wrote:

> Such an acquisition surely can't be done without an impact on such
> monumental projects, and I'm wondering what route HPE will follow
> there.

I would guess there would be contractual obligations around these that 
HPE would inherit.  I'd also note that Blue Waters is a counter-example 
of a case where the initial vendor (IBM in this case) didn't get bought 
but it still didn't guarantee delivery.

All the best,
Chris
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