Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
-Original Message- From: Beowulf On Behalf Of Gerald Henriksen Sent: 18 May 2019 01:27 To: Beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray On Fri, 17 May 2019 10:10:16 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:01 AM Jonathan Aquilina > wrote: >> >> Redhat and IBM im

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 17 May 2019 10:10:16 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:01 AM Jonathan Aquilina > wrote: >> >> Redhat and IBM im worried as I use Centos big time and then the only thing I >> can think of is forking fedora and roll a rolling distro if they decide to >> pull the plug. But we ha

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
That is my biggest fear for centos to be fair with the IBM RH acquisition. From: Jonathan Engwall Sent: 17 May 2019 21:32 To: Jonathan Aquilina Cc: Kilian Cavalotti ; Deepak Singh ; beowulf Subject: Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray Re: feeling about IBM RedHat, Other types of acquisitions ex

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Engwall
Re: feeling about IBM RedHat, Other types of acquisitions exist, some hostile leading to liquidation. Jonathan Engwall On Fri, May 17, 2019, 12:03 PM Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Could there be potential for HP to integrate their own hardware into the > mix or basically leave these projects as is

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Could there be potential for HP to integrate their own hardware into the mix or basically leave these projects as is since they were awarded before the acquisition by HPE. I would say anything is possible at this stage. -Original Message- From: Beowulf On Behalf Of Kilian Cavalotti Sent

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
What kind of feeling re IBM RH? Regards, Jonathan From: Beowulf On Behalf Of Jonathan Engwall Sent: 17 May 2019 19:00 To: Kilian Cavalotti Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray Hello, This could be the beginning of a super corporation, like Coca-Cola or Time-War

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
I would say that is a discussion for another email thread. Jonathan -Original Message- From: Beowulf On Behalf Of Eliot Eshelman Sent: 17 May 2019 18:26 To: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray Should have gone for the ZombieLoad, RIDL, MDS nightmare. Still h

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
On 5/17/19 10:10 AM, Michael Di Domenico wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:01 AM Jonathan Aquilina wrote: Redhat and IBM im worried as I use Centos big time and then the only thing I can think of is forking fedora and roll a rolling distro if they decide to pull the plug. But we have to wait

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Engwall
Hello, This could be the beginning of a super corporation, like Coca-Cola or Time-Warner. Large contracts are attractive and the acquisition is brings in quick cash. IBM RedHat leaves me with another feeling. Jonathan Engwall On Fri, May 17, 2019, 8:31 AM Kilian Cavalotti < kilian.cavalotti.w...@g

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Eliot Eshelman
Should have gone for the ZombieLoad, RIDL, MDS nightmare. Still hasn't been mentioned on this list ;-) Eliot On 5/17/19 11:44 AM, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote: Damn it. Late to the party again! Prentice Bisbal Lead Software Engineer Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory http://www.pppl.go

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
Damn it. Late to the party again! Prentice Bisbal Lead Software Engineer Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory http://www.pppl.gov On 5/17/19 11:36 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/hp-enterprise-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-supercomputer-maker-cray-jvrfiu79

[Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/hp-enterprise-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-supercomputer-maker-cray-jvrfiu79 -- Prentice Bisbal Lead Software Engineer Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory http://www.pppl.gov ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beow

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Kilian Cavalotti
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 5:36 AM Deepak Singh wrote: > It’s official now > > https://www.cray.com/company/news-and-media/hpe-acquisition-press-release I'm wondering how this will impact the two CORAL-2 contracts that have been awarded already. Intel subcontracted Cray on Argonne's Aurora, and Cray

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Michael ill send you an email off list re centos as I have an idea I would love to bring to life Get Outlook for iOS From: Beowulf on behalf of Michael Di Domenico Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 16:10 Cc: beowulf Subject: Re: [Beowulf] HPE t

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Michael Di Domenico
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:01 AM Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Redhat and IBM im worried as I use Centos big time and then the only thing I > can think of is forking fedora and roll a rolling distro if they decide to > pull the plug. But we have to wait and see. in regards to centos, that's anot

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Look at the HPE acquisition of Nimble storage they have left their hardware alone as they offer Nimble storage servers so I have a feeling but I could be wrong they will do the same with Cray. Redhat and IBM im worried as I use Centos big time and then the only thing I can think of is forking f

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Michael Di Domenico
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:53 AM Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > Interesting I am dealing with one of the two local distributors in Malta and > they are quite helpful when it comes to encountering issues. some of it is certainly location dependant. i've dealt with the us, uk, and irish teams. the

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Interesting I am dealing with one of the two local distributors in Malta and they are quite helpful when it comes to encountering issues. Regards, Jonathan -Original Message- From: Beowulf On Behalf Of Michael Di Domenico Sent: 17 May 2019 15:51 Cc: beowulf Subject: Re: [Beowulf] HPE t

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Michael Di Domenico
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 8:45 AM Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > They have some amazing hardware. Quick to deploy windows etc on them for > sure. What am I missing with the ugh dealing with hp again. HP is separate > from enterprise side of things. For enterprise there is HPE. They are part of > HP

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
They have some amazing hardware. Quick to deploy windows etc on them for sure. What am I missing with the ugh dealing with hp again. HP is separate from enterprise side of things. For enterprise there is HPE. They are part of HP but two separate focuses. Regards, Jonathan -Original Message

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Deepak Singh
It’s official now https://www.cray.com/company/news-and-media/hpe-acquisition-press-release > On May 17, 2019, at 04:43, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 1:20 AM Kilian Cavalotti > wrote: >> >> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/hp-enterprise-said-to-nea

Re: [Beowulf] HPE to acquire Cray

2019-05-17 Thread Michael Di Domenico
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 1:20 AM Kilian Cavalotti wrote: > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/hp-enterprise-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-supercomputer-maker-cray-jvrfiu79 on one had bloomberg hasn't done so well in the tech reporting lately (ala supermicro and others), so i guess we'