Sven Brehmer, President & CEO of PolyCore Software, is a founding member of the Multicore Association and chairman of the Communications API working group. Prior to founding PolyCore Software, Brehmer served as senior director for Wind River's Embedded Platforms Division as a result of the acquisition of Integrated Systems in 2000, where Brehmer served as the chief operating officer and executive vice president of DIAB-SDS. Brehmer was also President and CEO of Diab Data after receiving his Master's degree in Electronics Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Ted Gribb is PolyCore Software’s Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining PolyCore Software, Gribb had sales management positions for Wind River, Diab Data and Mentor Graphics. Previously, he held management positions in software engineering. Gribb received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from DeSales University.
Philip Blood received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Utah where, using massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations on NSF supercomputers, he studied how proteins remodel cellular membranes. In 2007, Philip joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC) as a Senior Scientific Specialist. He currently works with scientists in the fields of computational chemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, economics, and various other disciplines to advance science through supercomputing. Philip also works in the XSEDE Campus Champions program, an effort to help more researchers at U.S. institutions take advantage of the national supercomputing resources available through XSEDE.
Sage Weil designed Ceph as part of his PhD research in Storage Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since graduating, he has continued to refine the system with the goal of providing a stable next generation distributed storage and file system for Linux. Prior to his graduate work, Sage helped found New Dream Network, the company behind DreamHost.com, who now supports a small team of Ceph developers.
Rich Brueckner acquired insideHPC in August, 2010 after racking up over 24 years of 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.
Over the past year, Brueckner has been busy growing his media business with the launch of the following sister publications:
R. K. Owen physicist by training, but a software developer by vocation. Received his Ph.D. in theoretical atomic and molecular physics from the University of California - Berkeley. Worked at NASA/Ames for the Advanced Computational Facility and then the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation program. Currently works at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing center in Oakland, CA. Was introduced to Modules on a Cray C90, ported the 3.0beta release to Linux and has maintained the distribution since 1999.
Chip Freitag is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Advanced Micro Devices, where he currently works as technical lead in the Math Libraries group. He started at AMD in 1993, and has worked as a technical marketing engineer on the 29K RISC processor and Embedded x86 products, with an emphasis on networking and telecommunications market segments. Before AMD, Chip was with KMW/Andrew corporation for 10 years where he worked on Z80 and 68000 based protocol converter and printer emulation products, including a line of Apple/IBM connectivity products.
Chip earned a Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983 and is happy to finally use all of those Fortran books in his current library work. Chip is an Army brat, is married, and has one daughter. For the past three and a half years, he has forsaken all other forms of existence to complete work on an airplane.
Koh Hotta is a director of Quality Assurance Project and Software Development Division in Next Generation Technical Computing Unit in Fujitsu. He joined Fujitsu Ltd. in 1980, where he has been engaged in development of compilers for high performance computer systems. And he is also a director of board of OpenMP ARB since 2004.
He has received the B.S. degree in Information Science from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 1980 and the Masters degree in Management from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 2001. He was the leader of the group of Advanced Parallelizing Compiler Technology in the Advanced Parallelizing Compiler Japanese National Project from 2000 to 2003.
Shinji Sumimoto,PhD is a senior architect and a director in Software Development division of Next Generation Technical Computing unit at Fujitsu Ltd, and, a research fellow of IT systems lab at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. He is in charge of technical development of high performance communication software including MPI and Cluster file system. He is a board member of MPI forum.
Dug has a history of leading successful products and companies to solve pressing security problems. Dug spent 7 years as founding Chief Security Architect at Arbor Networks, protecting over 70% of the world's Internet service providers, and growing to $100M+ annual revenue before its acquisition by Tektronix. Before Arbor, Dug built the first commercial network anomaly detection system (acquired by NFR / Check Point).
Dug's contributions to the security community include popular open source security (OpenSSH, libdnet, dsniff), distributed filesystem (NFSv4), and operating system (OpenBSD) projects, and the Workshop On Offensive Technologies (WOOT).
Jon is a well-known security expert and researcher. While his research interests span across the security domain, he has deep expertise in mobile security, cloud security, and malware analysis. Jon attended the University of Michigan for a BS, MS, and PhD in Computer Science, and has held positions at Merit Network and Arbor Networks.
odney Mach is principal at www.hiperLogic.com, a HPC Consulting company selling and supporting Linux and Windows CAE/CFD cluster solutions. HiperLogic recently launched TotalCAE.com, a suite of tools for CAE/CFD engineers running on HPC Server 2008 R2.
Rodney has 15+ years of experience in designing and supporting large scale HPC solutions to help manufacturing companies reduce time to solution. Rodney started out at the University of Michigan Center for Advanced Computing supporting large scale AIX, Linux, and OS X clusters for national researchers. Rodney then left Academia to work as director of HPC computing at Absoft where he designed products to simplify cluster management. Rodney founded HiperLogic in 2005 to focus on supporting high performance computing in the manufacturing space.
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