RCE 95: Open Compute Project

Created on Friday, 09 January 2015 17:22
Written by Brock Palen
Open Compute Project
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Thomas Sohmers about Open Compute.

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Thomas Sohmers is the founder and CEO of REX Computing, a High Performance Computing startup that is focusing on developing a new processor architecture targeted at performance, energy efficiency, and scalability for modern HPC and supercomputing workloads. His experience includes working at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies for 3 years as both an end user of HPC systems, and later transitioning into designing and building them at the lab. This experience led to starting REX Computing in 2013 as a recipient of the Peter Thiel '20 under 20' Fellowship, where he leads the architectural design and business operations.