[ale] Saving electricity with Linux

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

Chuck,

HP bought Compaq 22 years ago, so what is branded as what really does not
reflect who makes or probably even designs it.

md

On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, 10:37 Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jon,
>
> Most HPE gear that is sold, really is Compaq. All their servers are
> rebrand Compaq with HPE branding.
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 8:31 AM Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> When I spoke about "Cray" it was when it was "Cray Research" the child of
>> Seymour, and "supercomputers" tended to be designed as monoliths.
>>
>> That company went Bankrupt, was sold off to Silicon Graphics which went
>> Bankrupt and was sold off to Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  The new company
>> is really "Cray" in name only other than they design HPC clusters.
>>
>> md
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, 07:49 Brian Stanaland via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> > "Back in the day" when supercomputers like Cray, Control Data and
>>> others ruled the market their use of electricity was legendary.   A Cray-1
>>> was rumored to produce enough hot water to heat 10 homes in Toronto,
>>> Canada.   The cost ors f a supercomputer was so high that very few agencies
>>> could afford one
>>>
>>> Cray has come a long way since then. As have supercomputers in
>>> general. Still use gobs of power but at least that gets measured and
>>> ranked now. Seven of the top ten green systems are Cray. They're not
>>> slow, either. The lowest rank on the regular top 500 is 128 (2nd on
>>> the green list) while the number 11 fastest is the 8th greenest. (And
>>> I admit that I'm a little biased since I work on them.)
>>> https://www.top500.org/lists/green500/2024/06/
>>>
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