Dell Technologies HPC Community Event
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February 24th at 10:00am CST
A Spirited Conversation about HPC and Cloud Computing
with Tim Carroll, Director, HPC & AI for Research, Microsoft; Bill Magro, Chief Technologist, High Performance Computing, Google; and Martijn de Vries, Chief Technology Officer, Bright Computing Introducing the Dell HPC and AI Leadership Caitlin Gordon, VP of Product Management for Integrated Solutions; Pete Manca, SVP, Integrated Solutions; and Ihab Tarazi, SVP, Chief Technology Officer of Dell Technologies |
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About the Event
A Spirited Conversation about HPC and Cloud Computing
HPC has historically been dominated by bare-metal, on-prem solutions: primarily propriety hardware and software until the 2000s, then largely (not entirely commodity technology hardware and open-source software for two decades. However, the last decade has seen the emergence and dominance of cloud computing (also powered largely by commodity technologies and some open-source software) for many IT areas and workloads, with HPC becoming a rapidly growing workload in the last 5 years. What does the future hold for on-prem solutions, cloud HPC services, and hybrid cloud HPC? Which verticals, workloads, and customer scales will end up where? What are the tech (and other) trends that are influencing these directions? Jay Boisseau will engage some old friends in a spirited conversation (and occasionally a debate) about the future of HPC on-prem, cloud, and hybrid solutions.
Introducing the Dell HPC and AI Leadership
Dell Technologies is committed to leadership in all of IT, from edge to core to cloud, especially in the Data Decade ahead. Recent changes in the Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solution Group (ISG) will help optimize efforts across the continuum of strategy, innovation, product management, engineering, and more, while more fully integrating computational, storage, networking, and software technologies, products, and experts to ensure the best portfolio of integrated solutions. The new leaders of integrated solutions, Senior VP Pete Manca and VP Caitlin Gordon, and SVP Ihab Tarazi of the CTO office will be instrumental in the rapid development of new integrated solutions for HPC, data analytics, AI, and more. They will share more of their vision, strategy, and plans in the months ahead, but will provide early views into their commitment and directions at this HPC Community event! |
About the Speakers
Tim Carroll, Director, HPC & AI for Research, Microsoft
Tim Carroll leads Microsoft’s effort to support the public research community. For 20 years, his mission has been to create easier access to the scalable compute & data that researchers require to solve complicated problems. He as proudly survived the journey from “new to HPC,” all the way to “that guy has been around as long as I can remember.”
Bill Magro, Chief Technologist, High Performance Computing, Google
Bill Magro is the CTO for HPC at Google, where he is leading the design and development of new solutions for traditional and emerging HPC workloads on Google Cloud Platform. He joined Google after a long career as CTO for HPC at Intel, working with both on-premises and cloud partners to develop optimized HPC solutions leveraging Intel's technologies. Bill has been a leading voice in the HPC community for over two decades, and participates and presents in a number of conferences, advisory boards, and panels.
Martijn de Vries, Chief Technology Officer, Bright Computing
Martijn de Vries, CTO at Bright Computing, is responsible for Bright's software development, leading this function from Bright's Amsterdam office. Prior to Bright Computing, Martijn was head of software development at ClusterVision, where he led the creation of an innovative cluster management platform. ClusterVision spun off Bright as a separate entity in 2009.
Caitlin Gordon, VP of Product Management for Integrated Solutions, has been at Dell Technologies for over 15 years, with broad experience in IT marketing and management. Expertise includes portfolio solutions, messaging and positioning, content creation and activation, product launches, creation and delivery of sales and partner training, press and analyst activity, customer briefings as well as influencing product requirements. In her free time, she can be found chasing around her two kids, watching Boston sports, or riding her Peloton to keep sane.
Pete Manca is an accomplished senior executive with a history of creating, marketing, and selling high-quality solutions to mission-critical enterprise customers. Pete’s current role, as Senior Vice President of Integrated Solutions, encompasses Custom Design, Technology Alliances, High-Performance Computing, and Data Center Workload Solutions Development. Previously, Pete managed the Converged and Hyper-Converged business unit. Prior to Dell, Pete was CEO of Egenera, a Converged Infrastructure, and Cloud Computing technology company in the Boston area.
Ihab Tarazi, SVP, Chief Technology Officer, Dell Technologies
Ihab Tarazi is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Dell Technologies Networking and Solutions where he is responsible for technology strategy and roadmap, and next-generation products and platforms. Prior to that role, Mr. Tarazi served as Chief Technology Officer at Packet Host, Inc., a leading bare metal cloud company built for developers, where he was responsible for the company's technical and product strategy, engineering, and platform operations. Prior to joining Packet, Mr. Tarazi held a number of positions in the telecom and infrastructure space, including Chief Technology Officer at the data center and colocation provider Equinix, where he was accountable for technology innovation and strategic engagements with leading platforms in the Cloud, Security, Storage, Edge and IoT sectors. Previously Mr. Tarazi served as VP Engineering and Technology at Verizon, where he led a global team of providing strategic and tactical oversight for the Engineering and Product Development of Global Enterprise Services including MPLS VPN, IP, Ethernet, Security, and Managed Services. He has served as a member of our board of directors for NeoPhotonics Corp. since October 2015. Mr. Tarazi holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of Maryland and an M.S. in Telecommunications Management from Southern Methodist University. |