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To the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt, where we caught up with Bill Mannel, general manager of HP’s freshly minted HPC and Big Data group, a business unit within the server division. HP’s HPC and big data hardware revenues include blade servers and some Superdomes in the mix. But the company is …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    >HP has nailed its colours to Intel’s HPC scalable system framework, announced in April: it will integrate the chip vendor’s bleeding edge technologies into its Apollo server, including upcoming Xeon Phi processors

    Lets take a moment and congratulate HP for taking over the world with Itanium just as it was predicted to do so a decade ago. Also as we all are aware and as HP said, 2014 was the year of memristor and wow is the world a different place now.

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    1. Bring_Back_MPE
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      Point taken. I remember returning from a service call in my HP CE-Mobile in the mid-nineties (cellphone handset in the armrest, big black box in the trunk), and picked up a broadcast internal voicemail from corporate HQ announcing the HP Itanium partnership with Intel. Twenty years and still waiting for that chip that "will change everything".

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  2. luis river

    the life continues

    Itanium was a valiant bet, like it was the bankrupt tech "cell" of IBM, sony and toshiba but there were chancy bets we would be still with the 4040 of intel

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