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Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup

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Hi Sparkus, Superdome is doing nicely with the fusion of the SGI acquisition and the Superdome mission critical features. That being said there are many guys brought back together in the same company now given the history of Cray and SGI. One would expect cross pollination of ideas as having met a few of them from each side now they are always fascinating to listen to (before my brain starts melting). Patents and designs can also be shared, exciting times in my view. Cheers.

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Re: S G I ?

Hi, I'd gently point you here:

https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/servers/superdome.html#portfolio

The SGI systems rolled into the Superdome Flex line a while ago. Mainly the UV next gen hardware DNA with the addition of the RAS features long present on Superdome. Whilst this sits more in the Mission Critical space within our portfolio there are still plenty of more esoteric in memory projects running on these systems.

We have ARM systems in the wild. I'd note that on the newly named HPE Cray systems the AMD node is marked as the first of a line of modules. I'd fully expect ARM, Intel, and others as demanded or brought to market. Now as an HPE empoyee I'd say this of course, but I am genuinelly seeing a lot of focus and resources into our HPC and AI efforts. Antonio Neri is an engineer at heart and has invested heavily here. I would hope to see your prediction proved utterly wrong in 3 years time :-). Have a good one.

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Mediocre Britain: UK broadband ranked 31st in world for speed

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16MBps , oh what lofty dreams.... still on 5.5 on a good day but I guess I am in the middle of nowhere...well in a Town with an exchange enabled 5 years ago....

Conference calls or an evening attempt at watching anything end up being a game of "whack a mole" , running round the house turning off any device that has decided to download an update as I dare try and stream anything.

Worst thing ...I'd happily have paid to a) get some decent infrastructure b) never have to give Openreach any money ever again (even once I moved to EE to stop BT trying to sell me their sport on a useless connection that couldn't handle it...only for the bleepers to buy EE...I've since moved again but it still ends up in Openreach's hands...)

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