David Rich

Bio

The slides for David Rich's invited talk at HPCS2010 can be found here, and for the lunch talk can be found here.

David joined Microsoft as part of the acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing where he was VP of Marketing. At Microsoft his focus is on developing strategy and business with a few key TC partners. Previous to Microsoft and ISC, he was director of marketing at AMD where he started and ran AMD’s HPC and high-end embedded businesses. He also served as president of the Hypertransport Consortium. His experience includes VP of biz dev and marketing assignments at Fujitsu, and startups API Networks and Dolphin Interconnect. He started and managed the TotalView business and in the very early days worked on BBN Butterfly parallel computers and Apollo workstations. His only job writing code was Z80 assembler for an SNA (3274) protocol converter. He has a degree in computer science from Brown University.