http://insidehpc.com HPC news for supercomputing professionals Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:32:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-167656 Technical blogs with pictures and videos » On the Block: SiCortex’s DeLorean-Style Green Supercomputer Fri, 29 May 2009 01:03:57 +0000 #comment-167656 [...] John West over at insideHPC, tells me that he thinks the large upfront investment in SiCortex’s hardware that it needed to recoup was what ended up hurting it. He emailed that the company had sold 80 machines since launching its computers in 2007, and had a sales pipeline “tens of millions of dollars deep,” but wasn’t profitable. So it simply may have run out of cash.  In that case, its failure may be a sign of both the venture industry’s reluctance to invest in capital-intensive businesses, and the difficulties facing a specialty hardware company today. [...] [...] John West over at insideHPC, tells me that he thinks the large upfront investment in SiCortex’s hardware that it needed to recoup was what ended up hurting it. He emailed that the company had sold 80 machines since launching its computers in 2007, and had a sales pipeline “tens of millions of dollars deep,” but wasn’t profitable. So it simply may have run out of cash.  In that case, its failure may be a sign of both the venture industry’s reluctance to invest in capital-intensive businesses, and the difficulties facing a specialty hardware company today. [...]

]]> http://insidehpc.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-167636 On the Block: SiCortex’s DeLorean-Style Green Supercomputer Thu, 28 May 2009 23:01:51 +0000 #comment-167636 [...] John West over at insideHPC, tells me that he thinks the large upfront investment in SiCortex’s hardware that it needed to recoup was what ended up hurting it. He emailed that the company had sold 80 machines since launching its computers in 2007, and had a sales pipeline “tens of millions of dollars deep,” but wasn’t profitable. So it simply may have run out of cash.  In that case, its failure may be a sign of both the venture industry’s reluctance to invest in capital-intensive businesses, and the difficulties facing a specialty hardware company today. [...] [...] John West over at insideHPC, tells me that he thinks the large upfront investment in SiCortex’s hardware that it needed to recoup was what ended up hurting it. He emailed that the company had sold 80 machines since launching its computers in 2007, and had a sales pipeline “tens of millions of dollars deep,” but wasn’t profitable. So it simply may have run out of cash.  In that case, its failure may be a sign of both the venture industry’s reluctance to invest in capital-intensive businesses, and the difficulties facing a specialty hardware company today. [...]

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