NYtimes : Designer of Supercomputers Leaves Cray to Join Microsoft
Burton Smith, a longtime supercomputer designer and chief scientist at Cray, has resigned to take a position at Microsoft.
Mr. Smith was a founder of Tera Computer, which in 2000 acquired Cray Research from Silicon Graphics. The company, which was based in Seattle, was renamed Cray.
A Microsoft spokesman said Friday that Mr. Smith would work for Craig Mundie, one of Microsoft’s chief technology officers and formerly chief executive of Alliant Computer Systems, a maker of an early minisupercomputer.
Microsoft announced two weeks ago that it planned to introduce a new version of its Windows software for scientific and engineering users, and that Mr. Smith would be involved.
Source: nytimes.com
