An article in the Times of India talks about the growth of SGI, the doubly-failed supercomputing company, in the wake of certain flubs by HP and IBM. Before I begin the dissection, I think these paragraphs are worth reading closely:
“Ninety days back, Leo announced HP’s new future to be in mobility, cloud and connectivity . Ninety days later, he withdraws mobility and connectivity, recalling its TouchPad and a planned spinoff of its PC business.” HP’s uncertainty is turning out to be good for Barrenechea’s USbased supercomputing company which recently posted better than expected results even in an uncertain economic environment.
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“IBM just walked away from a customer at the University of Illinois, a $200-million dollar project. I don’t know how you will build a trusted relationship with a customer when you are willing to stand up to an important system and say just kidding,” added Barrenechea , who was the CTO of CA Inc before joining the SGI board in 2006.
Got to give them credit, I think HP’s uncertainty will be a boon for many companies, not just SGI. However, I don’t see how HP pulling out of tablet computing is really going to do much for SGI’s HPC business.
As for the 2nd one, I had to stop myself from laughing out loud. Talking smack about IBM and Blue Waters after they busted the $30M PSC deal (More here and here) really shows how short their own memory is. Of course now NCSA is looking for another system to fill their floor, but they’ve first got to secure funding and such so it’s probably a good year away. The Blue Waters system was an NSF system (targeted for DARPA research) but I bet DARPA won’t be paying for another system hosted at NCSA anytime soon, so that leaves NSF or other agencies to pickup the tab. With NSF focusing on heavy petascale+ systems, they tend to be offering bigger awards less frequently.
Of course, none of anything mentioned here has anything to do with Graphics. SGI really needs to find a new meaning for that G.
Update 12:43pm – Clarified that Blue Waters was funded by NSF, but targeted for DARPA research.
via Times of India and HPCwire
You need to do some serious fact checking
If you have information to add/correct, feel free to let me know.
It is clear you have no clue about much of the substance here. Blue Waters is a NSF system (not DARPA), and you can not compare the situation to SGI and PSC. There was no signed contract between SGI and PSC. there was never any agreement that governed what would be delivered, when, and under what terms.
Well, funding may have come through NSF but the system was aimed at DARPA for use.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Universities-And-Supercomputers-62630.shtml
My lord.. still completely incorrect. The Blue Waters system is allocated by NSF for open scientific research. There is no funding or allocation connection between DARPA and BlueWaters. Please remove this article.
You’re welcome to write a rebuttal and email it to me ([email protected]) and I’ll publish it. But the article will stay.
I checked out your link. Alexandru is just plain mistaken, I’m not sure what lead him to believe what he wrote. The next guy can now point to both his and your articles and be triply mistaken. This is exactly why I advocate removing erroneous information.
I recommend you remove this entire post. It is virtually content free and misinformation