CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Bill Blake

Bill Blake
Vice President, High Performance Technical Computing
Compaq Computer Corporation

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Biography

Bill Blake is the vice president of Compaq's worldwide High Performance Technical Computing business with responsibility for the development and marketing of HPTC solutions including the AlphaServer SC supercomputers. According to IDC, under Bill's management, the Compaq HPTC business has grown by 19.% CAGR for the past five years surpassing the $1B level in 2000 reaching the #1 vendor by revenue position in 2001. He is also responsible for the development of compilers, software development tools, parallel processing software, and Linux and Grid computing initiatives with groups in the U.S., Ireland and Switzerland.

Prior to Compaq, Bill had been involved with product development at Digital since 1973. Although he has been focused on software development and supercomputing for the past six years, his experience spans the development of VLSI components for video graphics, network controllers and high performance interconnects to engineering applications of artificial intelligence software. Bill pioneered the development of CMOS cell-based design and logic synthesis CAD work at Digital, technology used in many VLSI products including the current AlphaServers. Bill was also responsible for the strategic alliance with Encore that introduced the MEMORY CHANNEL to Digital and the current strategic alliance with Quadrics Supercomputing World for the interconnect used in the ALphaServer SC.

Trained at the undergraduate and graduate level in Electrical Engineering, Bill is a member of the IEEE, ACM, American Association of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Board of Directors for the OpenMP organization and Unlimited Scale, Inc. He is also Compaq's Executive Partner for the DoE National Labs and key Biotech customers such as Celera Genomics, Inc. and GeneProt, Inc.

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