Cray Inc. : Cray Names William C. Blake Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
04/19/2012| 09:16am US/Eastern
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SEATTLE, WA, Apr 19, 2012 -- Global supercomputer leader Cray
Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the appointment of
William C. Blake to the position of senior vice president and
chief technology officer (CTO). With more than three decades
of high performance computing (HPC) and Big Data experience,
Blake will be responsible for defining the integrated
infrastructure that will drive Cray's next generation of
supercomputers and solutions.
Blake has served as a member of Cray's Board of Directors
since his appointment in June 2006. Blake will assume his new
responsibilities as Cray's senior vice president and CTO
on April 30 and complete his term on Cray's Board of
Directors, which concludes at Cray's annual meeting
currently scheduled for June 7 of this year. Immediately
prior to the commencement of the annual meeting, and in
connection with the conclusion of Blake's service as a
director, the size of Cray's Board of Directors will be
reduced to seven directors. In his new role, Blake will
report directly to Cray's president and CEO, Peter
Ungaro.
"Technical innovation is the centerpiece of Cray, and
the CTO position is important in matching our capabilities
with the needs and direction of the marketplace," said
Ungaro. "We wanted someone who understands current and
future supercomputing technologies, someone with a passion
for our business and our customers, and someone that can
further evolve and realize our Adaptive Supercomputing vision
as we drive towards integrating scientific simulation and Big
Data analytics on a single, scalable supercomputing platform.
All of this led us directly to Bill. Through his
contributions as a member of our Board of Directors, he has
helped shape our technical strategy for nearly six years. I
couldn't be more excited to have Bill join our executive
team as we design and build future generations of Cray
supercomputers."
Blake is a thirty-year veteran of the HPC industry and most
recently served as general manager of parallel computing
platforms in Microsoft Corporation's technical computing
group. Prior to its acquisition by Microsoft, Blake was
president and CEO of Interactive Supercomputing, Inc., an MIT
spin-out that developed the Star-P platform for transforming
desktop modeling and simulation applications to run in
parallel on the cluster and cloud. Before assuming this
position in January 2007, he served as senior vice president
of product development at Netezza Corporation, which applied
parallel processing and FPGA acceleration to the relational
database, resulting in the industry's first data
warehouse appliance with a 10X plus price/performance
advantage over alternative systems. Prior to joining Netezza,
Blake was with Compaq Computer Corporation where he was vice
president of Compaq's AlphaServer worldwide high
performance computing business, and compiler and parallel
software development group. Prior, he held key engineering
management positions in VLSI design and compiler development
with Digital Equipment Corporation. Blake received a B.S.E.E.
from the Lowell Technological Institute.
"I am honored to join the world-class Cray team in the
CTO role, and therefore be in position to leverage my
background in HPC, data warehousing and analytics, hardware
and software as Cray continues to develop unique and
differentiated platforms for the HPC and Big Data
markets," said Blake. "Cray has a real passion for
designing and building innovative supercomputing systems that
give customers the resources they desperately need to tackle
some of the most daunting computational challenges -- whether
they are scientific or analytic. It's a passion I also
share, and I'm excited to now be intimately involved in
the next challenge we ourselves face -- driving towards
exascale systems within the decade."
About Cray Inc.
As a global leader in supercomputing, Cray provides highly
advanced supercomputers and world-class services and support
to government, industry and academia. Cray technology is
designed to enable scientists and engineers to achieve
remarkable breakthroughs by accelerating performance,
improving efficiency and extending the capabilities of their
most demanding applications. Cray's Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers
to surpass today's limitations and meeting the
market's continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
Cray is a registered trademark of Cray Inc. in the United
States and other countries.
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