[Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re: HPE completes Cray acquisition

[Joshua Mora]

IMHO, it is about the competitive scaleout solutions they can put together: HW
-> interconnect, fault tolerance and QOS. SW -> communication
libraries(accelerated collectives) and application optimization with scalable
frameworks.
And to protect their current world wide portfolio of customers (HPE, SGI,
CRAY) for upcoming large scale deals.
Wrt AI, MLPERF training is a clear example of strong scaling AI with both data
and model parallelism, very much the same as in traditional domain
decomposition applications + streamed big data.

Joshua 

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Received: 07:41 AM PDT, 09/27/2019
From: "Lux, Jim \(US 337K\) via Beowulf" <beowulf at beowulf.org>
To: "beowulf at beowulf.org" <beowulf at beowulf.org> 
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [EXTERNAL] Re:  HPE completes Cray acquisition

> “A HPE company” seems sort of bloodless and corporate.  I would kind of
hope for  something like “CRAY – How Fast Do You Want to Go?” or
something like that to echo back to their long history of “just make it
fast”
> 
> From: Beowulf  on behalf of Jim Cownie 
> Date: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 7:23 AM
> To: Scott Atchley 
> Cc: "beowulf at beowulf.org" 
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Beowulf] HPE completes Cray acquisition
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> 
> On 25 Sep 2019, at 18:38, Scott Atchley > wrote:
> 
> These companies compliment each other. HPE is working on some very cool
technologies and their purchasing power should help reduce costs. Cray has
experience with the leadership-scale systems, several generations of HPC
interconnects, and optimizing scientific software.
> 
> We are waiting to find out which logo(s) will be on the Frontier when it
lands.
> 
> 
> I expect that will be the one that seems to be all over announcements
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> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:09 PM Christopher Samuel > wrote:
> Cray joins SGI as part of the HPE stable:
> 
>
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2019/09/hpe-completes-acquisition-of-supercomputing-leader-cray-inc.html
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>  > As part of the acquisition, Cray president and CEO Peter Ungaro, will
> join HPE as head of the HPC and AI business unit in Hybrid IT.
> 
> All the best,
> Chris
> --
>    Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Berkeley, CA, USA
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