Marc Hamilton is Vice President of Solaris marketing at Sun Microsystems where he is responsible for managing both Sun's Solaris business and the OpenSolaris community. Prior to starting his current role in 2007, Hamilton ran Sun's global systems practice solutions organization responsible for developing Sun's HPC, Web, and Data Center Virtualization solutions. In that role he oversaw the development of the fastest supercomputer in Asia, at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the first industry standard supercomputer designed to achieve over 1/2 Petaflop of performance at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Hamilton has held a variety of systems engineering and sales role during his 14 years at Sun.
Prior to Sun, Hamilton worked at TRW developing HPC applications for the US aerospace and defense industry including a 9000 cell parallel processing engine. He has published a number of technical articles and is the author of the book, "Software Development, Building Reliable Systems". Mr. Hamilton holds a BS degree in Math and Computer Science from UCLA, an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from USC, and is a graduate of the UCLA Executive Management program.
For more information, please visit his weblog at http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton
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