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HPE bought Cray, not HP

And this isnt really the original Cray. Its someone who bought Cray and started using their name (although they kept the original location open.) So there is precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera_Computer_Company

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I haven't been working in supercomputing for 25 years any more and my first reaction to the headline was "Oh, Cray does still exist?". But obviously my intuition wasn't too wrong, the surprise should have more been "Oh, the Cray name does still exist", but that's of course not an equally big surprise.

And before Tera, SGI bought Cray in 1995.

CrayLink was awesome. I worked for a web hoster in the late 90s that was big on SGI and we'd abuse temporary CrayLinks between two Origin 200s to upgrade storage or spin off sites to a new server with minimal service impact.

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