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Damn it, I’ve got to get to work, but let me answer your questions:
M4L – sorry to say, but I don’t remember his title. Suffice it to say that IBM employs him as one of their top thinkers. You are right, however, that IBM is not walking their talk. That is why I’m more bullish on Cray. Cray has not farmed-out their engineering and production to the degree that IBM has (I deal with both companies).
Donatella: working for a electronics/optics component company, I can tell you that globalization has not been kind to us in the past 10 years. The name of the game has been price competition, which has been encouraged by certain big IT companies that shall go nameless. R&D has been cut to the bone. His point, therefore, is that the big systems companies have to take a more “paternal” attitude towards the component suppliers: allow them enough margin to invest in R&D. Indeed, one of the big IT companies came to our booth during the show and said just that – they had changed their strategy to allow the component suppliers sufficient margin. It was like music to my ears!!
DH- Ebonex. One of the earliest Black-owned computer related businesses. I met the owner a few years later and worked for them. He was very successful.
donatella, super complex stuff is better done in-house in a vertical model cause the inter-operability (hard and software) is better ensured when it’s in a command & control environment. just look at how well boeing’s dreamliner has played out – ie outsourced/partnering model messing it up big time
Benson, how does centralizing operations relate to components and energy efficiency? Americans have the software advantage, but what are next steps to create competitive supercomputing facilities?
Damn it, I’ve got to get to work, but let me answer your questions:
M4L – sorry to say, but I don’t remember his title. Suffice it to say that IBM employs him as one of their top thinkers. You are right, however, that IBM is not walking their talk. That is why I’m more bullish on Cray. Cray has not farmed-out their engineering and production to the degree that IBM has (I deal with both companies).
Donatella: working for a electronics/optics component company, I can tell you that globalization has not been kind to us in the past 10 years. The name of the game has been price competition, which has been encouraged by certain big IT companies that shall go nameless. R&D has been cut to the bone. His point, therefore, is that the big systems companies have to take a more “paternal” attitude towards the component suppliers: allow them enough margin to invest in R&D. Indeed, one of the big IT companies came to our booth during the show and said just that – they had changed their strategy to allow the component suppliers sufficient margin. It was like music to my ears!!
Bxgirl, what would you do with a $2.5K supercomputer?
jester, chips are super cyclical sector. make your money then run cause it does boom & bust fairly consistently and severely (up & down)
DH- Ebonex. One of the earliest Black-owned computer related businesses. I met the owner a few years later and worked for them. He was very successful.
M4- I have access to all his accounts 😉
donatella, super complex stuff is better done in-house in a vertical model cause the inter-operability (hard and software) is better ensured when it’s in a command & control environment. just look at how well boeing’s dreamliner has played out – ie outsourced/partnering model messing it up big time
Thar’s money in them there microchips, I reckon.
I think Cray up cause bxgrl order 5 machines – till they find out CGar wont approve the payment and have to reverse out the receivable balance
Benson, how does centralizing operations relate to components and energy efficiency? Americans have the software advantage, but what are next steps to create competitive supercomputing facilities?
“assembling computer parts for a local company named Ebonex.’
Ebonics? Weird!!