Steve Scott serves as Chief Technology Officer responsible for designing the integrated infrastructure that will drive Cray's next generation of supercomputer. Dr. Scott who joined Cray in 1992 was formerly the chief architect of the Cray X1 scalable vector supercomputer and was instrumental in the design of the Cray/Sandia Red Storm supercomputer system. Dr. Scott holds fourteen US patents in the areas of interconnection networks cache coherence synchronization mechanisms and scalable parallel architectures. He received his Ph.D. in computer architecture from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1992 where he was a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Hertz Foundation Fellow. Dr. Scott has served on numerous program committees and as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is a noted expert in high performance computer architecture and interconnection networks and was the recipient of the 2005 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award. |