Cray’s Burton Smith goes to Redmond
We recently reported on Microsoft’s move into the cluster and high performance supercomputing field and the announcement by Bill Gates. Who better then to entice into the fold at Redmond than the co-founder of Cray, a name synonymous with super-computers.
A Cray press release reports that Burton Smith, who is Chief Scientist, is leaving company on December 7 to join Microsoft :
“As our Chief Scientist and an important leader of our research and development team, Burton has provided innovation and technical leadership to Cray for many years,” said Cray president and CEO Peter Ungaro. “We are very proud of the enormous contributions Burton has made to the high performance computing marketplace, and look forward to seeing his ideas leveraged in the broader computing industry.”
Cray specializes in the top-end of high performance computing.
Microsoft wants to position Windows in cluster computing because it foresees the technology becoming a business tool.
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