Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) is to acquire Cray, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRAY), a Seattle, Washington-based global supercomputer company.
HPE will acquire Cray for $35.00 per share in cash, in a transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion, net of cash.
The transaction is expected to close by the first quarter of HPE’s fiscal year 2020, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
Led by Peter Ungaro, President and CEO, Cray is the premier provider of high-end supercomputing solutions that address customers’ most challenging, data-intensive workloads for making critical decisions. The company has a leadership position in the top 100 supercomputer installations around the globe.
Cray’s supercomputing systems, delivered through their current generation XC and CS platforms, and next-generation Shasta series platform, have the ability to handle massive data sets, converged modeling, simulation, AI, and analytics workloads. In addition to supercomputers, they offer high-performance storage, low-latency high performance HPC interconnects, a full HPC system software stack and programming environment, data analytics, and AI solutions – all currently delivered through integrated systems.
The company, which delivered revenue of $456m in its most recent fiscal year, up 16 percent year over year, recently announced an Exascale supercomputer contract for over $600m for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The company was also part of an award with Intel for the first U.S. Exascale contract from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, with Cray’s portion of the contract valued at over $100 million.
High performance computing already is a key component of HPE’s vision and growth strategy and the company currently offers world-class HPC solutions, including HPE Apollo and SGI, to customers worldwide.
This portfolio will be further strengthened by leveraging Cray’s foundational technologies and adding complementary solutions.
The combined company will also reach a broader set of end markets, offering enterprise, academic and government customers a broad range of solutions and deep expertise to solve their most complex problems. Together, HPE and Cray will have enhanced opportunities for growth and the integrated platform, scale and resources to lead the Exascale era of high performance computing.
FinSMEs
21/05/2019