SOURCE: Interactive Supercomputing
March 11, 2008 09:00 ET
Interactive Supercomputing Strengthens Its Board of Directors
HPC Luminary Bill Camp to Help Take ISC to the Next Level
WALTHAM, MA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2008) - Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) added
Intel's High Performance Computing CTO, Bill Camp, to its board of
directors. Camp will join the board to help transition ISC from its hot
startup phase to an established, mature market leader in high performance
computing software.
ISC develops Star-P®, a software platform that delivers interactive
parallel computing power to the desktop. Star-P enables faster prototyping
and problem solving across a range of security, intelligence,
manufacturing, energy, biomedical, financial, and scientific research
applications.
Camp currently leads Intel's work in supercomputing as CTO of high
performance computing. Previously, he was director of computation,
computers, information and mathematics at Sandia National Laboratories,
where he worked on massively parallel processing and founded the Massively
Parallel Computing Research Laboratory in 1992. Camp also headed Cray
Research's Applications Technologies business and served on the design team
for the T3E and follow-on scalable vector computers. At Intel, he is
concentrating on many-core processor and system level architectures for the
path from peta-scale to exa-scale computing. Camp received his bachelor's
degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and completed a
Ph.D. in mathematical and computational physics at Cornell University.
"I am excited to join Bill Blake's team on the board of directors of
Interactive Supercomputing," said Camp. "In the past, parallel computing
has largely been the reserve of expert researchers at national
laboratories, universities and a few software houses. Today with the advent
of multi-core and future many-core processors, parallel computing becomes
the concern of all who develop and use software -- even on workstations and
personal computers. ISC's Star-P is a breakthrough in parallel computing
and will be a critical force in moving us beyond a priesthood of parallel
processing experts to the broad community of developers and users through
easy-to-use and efficient parallel programming and development tools."
About Interactive Supercomputing
Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) launched in 2004 to commercialize Star-P,
an interactive parallel computing platform. With automatic parallelization
and interactive execution of existing desktop simulation applications,
Star-P merges two previously distinct environments -- desktop computers and
high performance servers -- into one. Based in Waltham, Mass., the
privately held company markets Star-P for a range of biomedical, financial,
and government laboratory research applications.
Star-P is a registered trademark of Interactive Supercomputing Inc. All
other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective
owners.