CrayBay

Cray Inc. buys OctigaBay. OctigaBay was working on HPC-class computing equipment based on AMD Opteron processors and high-speed interconnect. The purchase is interesting, to say the least. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that Uncle Sam doesn't want low-cost and "more commoditized" HPC gear generally available; the U.S. Government is Cray's biggest customer.

From OctigaBay's website:

Cray Acquires OctigaBay

Positions Cray to Address Entire High Performance Computing Market

On February 25, 2004, Cray Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held OctigaBay Systems Corporation of Vancouver, British Columbia. OctigaBay is developing an innovative high performance computing (HPC) system designed to make supercomputing performance accessible to the growing community of scientific and technical computing users. This pending acquisition, coupled with Cray’s previously announced decision to commercialize the “Red Storm” system, will extend Cray’s product portfolio and multiply its addressable market by over four times.