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To: The Ox who wrote (1212)	10/31/2012 12:44:41 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8239

VVUS may be presenting a long opportunity? Wondering if a lot of this move down is window dressing for the quarter end?

To: The Ox who wrote (1212)	10/31/2012 12:48:23 PM
From: richardred	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8239

Hi OX: Short interest is an area I usually keep an eye on. Along with insider purchases. Especially insider trades that are open market purchases. FWIW-RE: XRTX Interesting note as Cray and XRTX have a Alliance . Cray (NASDAQ: CRAY) said the Titan is capable of more than 20 petaflops of high performance computing (HPC) power. A very well verse person on XRTX on YH. Good tidbits from an HPCwire interview with Cray re: XRTX' Sonexion: Bolding(President, Cray storage): Blue Waters will be one of the world's highest sustained performance configurations on both the compute and storage sides. This is groundbreaking, even for Cray. The storage will be four times larger than on any prior Cray system. It's no longer just about compute for Cray. World-leading compute and world-leading storage are now the one-two punch for our company. HPCwire: What's different about Sonexion storage? Bolding: The Cray Sonexion storage product line was designed from the ground up for scalability. This is unlike any other Lustre file systems we've installed. We couldn't have met the requirements for NCSA Blue Waters with any current technology other than Sonexion. I believe Sonexion has the best odds of achieving one terabyte per second sustained performance based on its highly scalable building-block architecture. Other vendors are aiming for similar milestone installations, but we see those architectures as less scalable than the Sonexion architecture. It's built for high scalability with Scalable Storage Units, or SSUs. Each time you add an SSU you add both bandwidth and capacity to the file system in a very balanced way. The switching and server infrastructure are integrated into the file system racks and cabinets themselves. This is done in the factory so it's ready to run at the customer site. This storage architecture also minimizes the switching and cabling needed to any compute module it's attached to. More conventional architectures require external servers, more complex InfiniBand switching and each server would need many more spinning disks to match the performance of a single Sonexion SSU. We see all this as adding costs and risks to the ability to scale storage productively. Another unique thing is that Sonexion is also designed as a datacenter-wide file system that connects not just to Cray supercomputers but to any others in the data center. HPCwire: So do you plan to sell Sonexion products to sites that don't have Cray supercomputers? Bolding: Absolutely yes. HPCwire: How have things been going for the Sonexion products in the marketplace? Has it been hard for HPC buyers to see Cray as a storage vendor? Bolding: We're traditionally viewed as an HPC compute company, and customers are still learning to view us as a storage company. But every time we install a new Sonexion system, the perception changes for that customer and that set of users. We've already done Sonexion installations in government, academia, and in the energy sector, and they're all in heavy production mode. To date, all of these are connected to Cray supercomputers, but we're starting to sell to non-Cray HPC customers and this will help change current perceptions. Don't forget that our predecessor, Cray Research, made some of the greatest storage innovations with SSDs and data migration. We work closely with our OEMs to ensure we are on the cutting edge from the perspective of software management, performance, and price-performance. While we've worked closely with a storage OEM on it, Sonexion is a Cray offering from the ground up. Our expertise includes Lustre scalability. xyratex.com