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Rich Brueckner Rich Brueckner has over 24 years of marketing and communications experience in High Performance Computing. Known to many in the industry as “the guy in the red hat,” Rich has been a fixture at the Supercomputing conferences since 1991 as an exhibit team manager for Cray Research, SGI, and Sun Microsystems. In his most recent role as HPC Community Manager at Sun, Rich authored the HPC Watercooler, an online news publication that soon became one of the widely read blogs at the company with thousands of page views per day.

Rich Brueckner

As a technical writer, Rich cut his teeth on HPC in 1986 at CRAY X-MP repair school in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He also serves on the ACM/IEEE SC Conference Communications Committee (SC09 and SC10) where he has been instrumental in adopting the use of social media. Rich currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

John Leidel recently joined as an HPC architect and technical junkie for Convey Computer (and as a consequence of our editorial policy, you won’t find John reporting on Convey).  Previously, he was a senior architect and technical lead for a federal supercomputing laboratory.  Having started his career as a classical software engineer, he participates in several open source projects centered around large enterprise computing/HPC environments. His recent interests include general purpose offload computing (FPGA/GPU/etc) in beowulf clusters. When he’s not writing for insideHPC.com or slinging code for various open source pursuits, you can find him spending time with his family or whittling away at homemade briar pipes. And yes, cowboy boots can be considered formal attire.