Dell Engineers An HPC Market Expansion

It is hard to say exactly how much infrastructure revenue went up for grabs when #IBM sold off its #Systemx division to #Lenovo last year, but in the #HPC market, if you look at the data from IDC and Intersect360, which do detailed tracking of HPC organizations in terms of revenues and installed base, the numbers are not small. It is hard to project until 2015 is finished and all the counting is done, but it is easily on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars that shifted away from IBM/Lenovo and largely toward two vendors: #HewlettPackardEnterprise and #Dell.

These two companies, along with #Cisco Systems with its enterprise-aimed blade servers, have been the main beneficiaries of the IBM/Lenovo deal on just about all server fronts, in fact.

We discussed #HPE ’s revamped plans to move more aggressively in the HPC and data analytics space concurrent with the SC15 supercomputing conference last week with Bill Mannel, who took over this business after many years at SGI. While at the conference we also caught up with the new HPC team at Dell, which ironically enough, has a team of infrastructure people that hail from the former Hewlett-Packard. This includes Jim Ganthier, general manager of engineered solutions at Dell, and Ed Turkel, HPC strategist at Dell, as well as a slew of others who spent many years at their main rival in the systems business. And make no bones about: Dell is throwing down the gauntlet, especially perhaps after supercomputer maker Cray was able to win the deal to install the #Lonestar5 system and HPE is building the Hikari system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin – where Michael Dell started his company in a dorm room in 1984 and just down the road from the company’s headquarters outside of Austin.

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