On Jan 23, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-01-23/ >> intel_to_buy_qlogic_s_infiniband_business.html > > wonder what Intel's thinking - could do some very interesting stuff, > but it would take a bit of charisma. QPI-over-IB anyone?
forget it > > I'm not crazy about Intel being a vertically-integrated HPC supplier > (chips, systems, interconnect, mpi, compilers - I guess they still > don't have their own scheduler or sexy cloud branding ;) maybe they just want a new generation ethernet nic dirt cheap for their motherboards; if you produce it in those numbers as they do probably anything gets dirt cheap, this doesn't bit highend, yet it might be cheaper then to buy qlogic than pay royalties to any of the infiniband vendors; which would be either mellanox or qlogic. Also they bought qlogic for 125 million dollar, though in cash, which doesn't seem to me as exceptionnel much from intels viewpoint whereas they might intend to sell some of their upcoming line of vector cpu's which badly need a network of course. 125 million is just a few supercomputers. maybe it was just a cheap buy, as qlogic doesn't have FDR yet, who knows? What i wonder about is how wallstreet knew in advance about qlogic getting taken over. If we look careful we see that since say roughly december 19th 2011, the nasdaq rose roughly 10.5% and qlogic rose quite a lot more, several percent. So it was significant more in demand than the index, which is weird if we realize that qlogic has unrolled nothing those months whereas its competitor Mellanox has unrolled FDR. It's obvious some traders knew this deal was coming, but real fingerpointing is not my job. Vincent > the world is a better place when each level has internal competition > based on useful, open (free), multi-implementation standards. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
