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HPE’s Superdome Gets An SGI NUMAlink Makeover

November 6, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought supercomputer maker SGI back in August 2016 for $275 million, it had already invested years in creating its own “DragonHawk” chipset to build big memory Superdome X systems that were to be the follow-ons to its PA-RISC and Itanium Superdome systems. …

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HPE Takes On The High End With SGI Expertise

November 29, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

SGI has always had scalable technology that should have been deployed more broadly in the academic, government, and enterprise datacenters of the world. …

Compute

Spark On Superdome X Previews In-Memory On The Machine

April 11, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

As readers of The Next Platform are well aware, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is staking a lot of the future of its systems business on The Machine, which embodies the evolving concepts for disaggregated and composable systems that are heavy on persistent storage that sometimes functions like shared memory, on various kinds of compute, and on the interconnects between the two. …

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HPE Fills A NUMA Server Gap With SGI UV Iron

February 9, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

It takes a lot of engineering talent, time, and money to create custom interconnects that are the basis of scale-up servers, which is one of the reasons that so few companies have been able to sustain that investment over the years. …

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