In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team regroups after SC12 to discuss an industry trend that was in evidence at the show: vendor consolidation. Cray just acquired Appro Intel acquired Qlogic Truescale InfiniBand, Whamcloud, and Cray interconnect IP IBM bought Platform Xyratex bought ClusterStor Hitachi acquired BlueArc NetApp bought Engenio storage And so on……