In his latest feature, under cover reporter Dr. Lewey Anton reports on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing.
In HPC, the badges may change, but the faces remain the same. Here are the lastest updates:
Mike Bernhardt
- Mike Bernhardt, formerly of The Exascale Report is back at Intel in a strategic role as a community evangelist for High Performance Computing. Widely known in the HPC community, Bernhardt headed up Intel’s HPC Marketing group back in the Paragon days and was one of just a handful of people recognized recently for 25 consecutive years of attendance at the SC conference. Most recently, you might remember Mike as “the guy in the yellow blazer” at the wildly popular Parallel Universe Computing Challenge in Intel’s booth at SC13.
- Peter Braam is now Founder & Archtect at Docsforce, Inc. The company supplies cloud-based technology that companies can use to deliver electronic statements, invoices, and other kinds of documents to clients privately and securely.
- Kevin Canady has left Xyratex for a Startup gig at stealthy TurboStor, Inc.
- Floyd Christofferson from SGI has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of the Active Archive Alliance.
- Gavan Corr has joined Cycle Computing as Chief Strategy Officer.
- Jeff Denworth has departed DDN for a new role as Senior VP of Marketing at CTERA Networks.
- Mark Dietrich has been appointed as President and CEO of the Compute Canada Calcul Canada organization.
- Karl Freund, formerly of Calxeda, is now Senior Consultant at Moor Insights and Strategy.
Brendan Gregg
- Brendan Gregg has left Joyent for a new gig as Senior Performance Architect at Netflix.
Have you moved or know of HPC folks in new positions? Let us know by sending an email to: lewey@insidehpc.com.
