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Steve Scott is an accomplished man. For the past 19 years, Scott's been working at Cray, where he served as vice president and CTO for the past 6 years. Prior to that, he was the chief architect of the Cray X1 scalable vector supercomputer and helped design several other Cray systems, including the XT, XE, and "Cascade" systems. Scott holds 27 U.S. patents in a variety of geeky areas (cache coherences and scalable parallel architectures to name just two), and is now bringing all that brain power to Nvidia.
Nvidia appointed the 45-year-old former CTO of Cray as CTO for its Tesla business unit. Going forward, Scott will be responsible for Tesla's roadmap and architecture as it applies to high performance computing (HPC).
"There are few people on the planet thath ave Steve's deep system level understanding of high performance computing," said Bill Daily, Nvidia's chief scientist. "Steve's decision to join Nvidia is a resounding endorsement that GPU accelerated computing is the future of HPC. He will play a central role in architecting the world's most powerful supercomputers."
This is a big hire for Nvidia as it tries to promote GPUs in supercomputers. Nvidia's GPUs are used in China's Tianhe 1A, the second fastest supercomputer on the planet according to Top500, and are key to the chip maker's plans to make exascale supercomputing a reality by 2018.
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yammerpickle2
August 11, 2011 at 3:33pm
I hope they learned something from Fermi. Doing GPU for HPC is a great idea. Being late, hot, noisy, and a current hog is not. I’m not an AMD fanboy my last two systems where Nvidia based. Currently own three GTX 580. But they sound and feel like I have a hair dryer under the desk. Sure my graphic settings are on ultra, but I need noise canceling headphones to hear myself think, and my central air needs to be assisted with a large window unit in the office.
Keith E. Whisman
August 11, 2011 at 12:40pm
At first after reading the first few words I thought that Nvidia was giving control of its Tesla program to Conan O'Brian but then I looked closely and realised it was just a really close look-a-like twin. LOL!
Interesting article. Where I work right now I think I'm the only person that is not a big wig. All these fucking chiefs and me, the only indian.
