Earlier this week Silicon Graphics was purchased by Rackable systems for 25mill. It also looks like Sun will be gobbled up to the tune of 7 Billion next week by IBM and Twitter the social tool could be purchased by Google. Recessions are very interesting times!
Posts Tagged ‘ibm’
Acquisition Week
Posted in Business, Computing, HPC, tagged google, ibm, rackable, sgi, silicon graphics, sun, twitter on Apr 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IBM in talks to buy Sun
Posted in Business, Computing, Work, tagged ibm, load leveler, sge, solaris, stock, sun, sun microsystems on Mar 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is reported that IBM are in talks to purchase SUN Microsystems. I had blogged about the possibility of Dell buying them a few months ago. At that time I looked into buying SUN stock because it was so low, wish I had enough cash at the time because their stock price has gone up [...]
Sequoia
Posted in HPC, tagged High Performance Computing, HPC, ibm, roadrunner, supercomputer on Feb 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IBM’s Deep Computing unit is pushing hard in the HPC space again! A few questions come to mind, can the code scale? How do you administer such a system? With 1.6 million cpu’s is there someone constantly walking around the system exchanging failed cpu’s and memory. Code-named Sequoia, the supercomputer has been ordered up by [...]
