Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-18 Thread Chris Elmquist
On August 17, 2016 11:55:16 PM CDT, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: >On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Chris Elmquist wrote: >> >> The SGI shared memory systems, the most current of which is called >> "UV", is a NUMALink interconnected design. They have a number of >> ASICs that implement the

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-17 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Chris Elmquist wrote: > > The SGI shared memory systems, the most current of which is called > "UV", is a NUMALink interconnected design. They have a number of > ASICs that implement the interconnect and protocol and bridge to the > Intel processors in

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-17 Thread Chris Elmquist
On August 17, 2016 10:49:46 PM CDT, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: >On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:04:10AM -0400, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us >wrote: >> On 2016-08-16 01:32, Mark J. Blair wrote: >> >But seriously, I didn't know that any pieces of SGI were still >around >> >to acquire. >> >> NUMALink, that's p

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-17 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:04:10AM -0400, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: > On 2016-08-16 01:32, Mark J. Blair wrote: > >But seriously, I didn't know that any pieces of SGI were still around > >to acquire. > > NUMALink, that's pretty much it in a nutshell I thought that tech was with CRAY (CRAYli

RE: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-16 Thread Curious Marc
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chris > That I did know. I rode that horse down the mountain during the Rackable > take over and I left in 2010. Most everything relating to OS, BIOS, > networking > and system management software is done here in Eagan, MN and

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-16 Thread Chris Elmquist
On August 16, 2016 12:32:32 AM CDT, "Mark J. Blair" wrote: > >> On Aug 15, 2016, at 19:54, Chris Elmquist wrote: >> On August 15, 2016 3:08:10 PM CDT, Mark Linimon > wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:49:29PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: I still don't understand what his motivation is. >>>

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-16 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-08-16 01:32, Mark J. Blair wrote: But seriously, I didn't know that any pieces of SGI were still around to acquire. NUMALink, that's pretty much it in a nutshell

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Aug 15, 2016, at 19:54, Chris Elmquist wrote: > On August 15, 2016 3:08:10 PM CDT, Mark Linimon wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:49:29PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: >>> I still don't understand what his motivation is. >> >> It could just be mental illness :-( >> > > I thought it was jus

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Chris Elmquist
On August 15, 2016 3:08:10 PM CDT, Mark Linimon wrote: >On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:49:29PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: >> I still don't understand what his motivation is. > >It could just be mental illness :-( > I thought it was just autocorrect on Android. -- Chris Elmquist

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > Indeed. Think 'PARRY meets Dissociated Press'. > > Thank you. > That explained why the content looked ALMOST relevant. > > The word and phrase usage would seem likely to be able to fool a Salton > style vector space (cosine) relevance ranking system! > > > I still don't understand what his mot

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:49:29PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: > I still don't understand what his motivation is. It could just be mental illness :-( mcl

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Fred Cisin
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Noel Chiappa wrote: Indeed. Think 'PARRY meets Dissociated Press'. Thank you. That explained why the content looked ALMOST relevant. The word and phrase usage would seem likely to be able to fool a Salton style vector space (cosine) relevance ranking system! I still do

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Fred Cisin > Could you get that translated into English, please? Indeed. Think 'PARRY meets Dissociated Press'. Noel

RE: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread geneb
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Jay West wrote: Yes. Done. \o/ g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread geneb
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Steve Bez wrote: You must be as crazy as listened too yers English tea cheers who Z HAS you back in nineteenth century standing ON words where you big your LiVV,leper key Id boss shrink biz kits,yeah? IBM,the company 5150-Apple NY No states. The end Monkey swing in tree,no n

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 08:12:43AM -0500, Jay West wrote: > Yes. Done. thank you.

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> I don't know about now, but SGI used to have a lot of Govt contracts > and a lot of oil companies as customers. HP buying that also means > they now have the ears of those customers when their solutions are old > and they need to migrate to new equipment. > > I predict a lot of late model Irix e

RE: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Jay West
Yes. Done. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 1:55 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: R: HP to acquire SGI On 8/14/16 10:14 PM, Steve Bez wrote: > My English commuter wrote that Can some

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Steve Bez
Major thing is ,what thought was read anyway, is the cycles followed by what is or was a long time ago that SGI and dev with HP were beneath a layer of pascal that IBM and the clones 'documented' before www internet existed as a whole, Reason constantly given for these acts that you read about but

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Steve Bez
Hey read ,it's not about persons,the me,hang boss spam off yer troll e.read,or leave it alone. On Monday, August 15, 2016, Al Kossow wrote: > On 8/14/16 10:14 PM, Steve Bez wrote: > >> My English commuter wrote that >> > > Can someone remove this git off the list, please? > > > -- Sent from Gm

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:40:32AM -0400, Christian Liendo wrote: > I don't know about now, but SGI used to have a lot of Govt contracts > and a lot of oil companies as customers. IIRC Unisys eventually turned into a government contractor. The thing is, if you build an organization big enough to

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-15 Thread Christian Liendo
I don't know about now, but SGI used to have a lot of Govt contracts and a lot of oil companies as customers. HP buying that also means they now have the ears of those customers when their solutions are old and they need to migrate to new equipment. I predict a lot of late model Irix equipment com

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 8/14/16 10:14 PM, Steve Bez wrote: My English commuter wrote that Can someone remove this git off the list, please?

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Steve Bez
My English commuter wrote that,I know you won't believe me whatever you do,but Latin 3 isn't a Television man? Why ?cape Rozzetta,no GCHQ Chess us. Cards got trump ? Ed On Monday, August 15, 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 08/14/2016 06:19 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > Could you get that translated i

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Steve Bez
You must be as crazy as listened too yers English tea cheers who Z HAS you back in nineteenth century standing ON words where you big your LiVV,leper key Id boss shrink biz kits,yeah? IBM,the company 5150-Apple NY No states. The end Monkey swing in tree,no nana aka pied pipe York key hill March bac

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 08/14/2016 06:19 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Could you get that translated into English, please? Sure, Fred: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco labor

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Adrian Stoness
whats really a shame is our economic system requiring a growth rate of X percentage no mater how much money u make like a multi billion dallor company sees 500mill growth from the yr befor but its shy 2% of what was expected stock tanks yet it made 500million more in proffit thats whats wrong what

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Fred Cisin
Could you get that translated into English, please? On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Steve Bez wrote: Have ideas but inflames the issue as those who might know where or what continue misinterpreted slang as belief from persons when machine tries all un mannered ways too oppo ate ,have sat for few years wh

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread ben
On 8/14/2016 6:35 PM, geneb wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Steve Bez wrote: Have ideas but inflames the issue as those who might know where or what continue misinterpreted slang as belief from persons when machine tries all un mannered ways too oppo ate ,have sat for few years when knowing certain

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread geneb
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Steve Bez wrote: Have ideas but inflames the issue as those who might know where or what continue misinterpreted slang as belief from persons when machine tries all un mannered ways too oppo ate ,have sat for few years when knowing certain machine yells like that causing thi

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Steve Bez
Have ideas but inflames the issue as those who might know where or what continue misinterpreted slang as belief from persons when machine tries all un mannered ways too oppo ate ,have sat for few years when knowing certain machine yells like that causing this reaction up too the point of watch it l

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Steven M Jones
On 08/14/2016 13:08, Ian S. King wrote: > > Grab all the SGI docs/bits you can, before HP sends them to /dev/null and > 404 SGI "retired" their excellent TechPubs system not very long ago when they outsourced customer support, thereby removing all the docs and patches that still covered many

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-14 Thread Ian S. King
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 8:09 PM, ben wrote: > On 8/12/2016 9:15 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > >> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote: >> >>> It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and killed palm. Now they >>> want to destroy also what's left of SGI ? >>> Better I don't say what I'm really

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-13 Thread ben
On 8/12/2016 9:15 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote: It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and killed palm. Now they want to destroy also what's left of SGI ? Better I don't say what I'm really thinking... "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men o

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Friday (08/12/2016 at 09:33AM -0700), Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 08/12/2016 06:17 AM, Todd Killingsworth wrote: > > > SGI was already destroyed decades ago. With more vision, they could > > have transitioned the business into becoming an Nvidia instead of a > > faceless rack server company. > >

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Jules Richardson
On 08/12/2016 11:33 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: Whatever, the original company and mindset is long gone. No use crying over spilt milk. Company, mindset, and the industry in which it operated, to be honest. I don't think I could get particularly excited about putting a SGI-branded graphics card i

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread geneb
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, geneb wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Fred Cisin wrote: If HP and Microsoft merged, would it put an end to computers? No, but it might create a Black Hole of Fail that would evour the planet. *sigh* s/evour/devour :wq g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread geneb
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Fred Cisin wrote: If HP and Microsoft merged, would it put an end to computers? No, but it might create a Black Hole of Fail that would evour the planet. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/col

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 08/12/2016 06:17 AM, Todd Killingsworth wrote: > SGI was already destroyed decades ago. With more vision, they could > have transitioned the business into becoming an Nvidia instead of a > faceless rack server company. But that's really what SGI is/was today--the former Rackable Systems who i

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Paul Koning
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > ... > I remember when HP was innovative, and made great test equipment. They still do, but that part hasn't been called HP for a long time. I figured when HP split into a test equipment company and an ink company, the outcome was obvious.

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Fred Cisin
If HP and Microsoft merged, would it put an end to computers? On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Paul Koning wrote: No, but it might put an end to the resulting company. Would that stop it from pushing Windoze10 "upgrade"? Note that HP didn't acquire DEC, or Palm; both had been absorbed by other companie

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Paul Koning
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote: >> It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and killed palm. Now they want to >> destroy also what's left of SGI ? >> Better I don't say what I'm really thinking... > > "All tyranny needs to g

Re: R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Fred Cisin
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote: It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and killed palm. Now they want to destroy also what's left of SGI ? Better I don't say what I'm really thinking... "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for men of good conscience to remain silent."

Re: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Todd Killingsworth
#x27;s left of SGI ? > Better I don't say what I'm really thinking... > > > -Messaggio originale- > Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di Christian > Liendo > Inviato: venerdì 12 agosto 2016 14:49 > A: General Discussion: On-Topic

R: HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Mazzini Alessandro
nerdì 12 agosto 2016 14:49 A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Oggetto: HP to acquire SGI This is for all my SGI guys out there. http://insidehpc.com/2016/08/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-sgi-to-extend-leadership-in-high-growth-big-data-analytics-and-high-performance-computing/

HP to acquire SGI

2016-08-12 Thread Christian Liendo
This is for all my SGI guys out there. http://insidehpc.com/2016/08/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-sgi-to-extend-leadership-in-high-growth-big-data-analytics-and-high-performance-computing/