[ Thanks to Lars for this link. ]
“A relatively new upstart is entering the fiercely competitive
high performance computing (HPC) server market this week. OctigaBay
Systems Corp, a two-year-old startup founded by VCs and experts in
HPC and telecoms systems, is based in Vancouver, British Columbia,
and its new OctigaBay 12K machine, which runs Linux and can scale
to 12,000 64-bit Opteron processors in a cluster, presents an
interesting challenge to IBM Corp, Hewlett Packard Co, Cray Inc,
Sun Microsystems Inc, and SGI Inc as they chase the HPC
dollars.“OctigaBay is not a real place in Canada, by the way, but a made
up name to reflect that there are eight major investors in the
company. The company is the third startup for Paul Terry, who works
as chief technology officer at the company; he was co-founder and
CTO of Abatis Systems, an IP networking specialist that was
eventually bought by Redback Networks…”