%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T Hybrid Software Boosts High Performance Computing Productivity %A David Rich %X Users of high performance computing have long enjoyed the availability of both commercial and open source software (OSS). But they typically resided in separate worlds. Open source was favored by the academic and government research communities while commercial independent software vendors served the HPC needs of specific industries, such as aerospace or energy. This article examines how the wall between these two software worlds is crumbling as industry increasingly adopts more open source tools. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 08/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/176 %N August 2008 %9 Articles %1 Interactive Supercomputing David Rich is Vice President of Marketing at Interactive Supercomputing Inc. He has more than 23 years of HPC and networking experience in both large and entrepreneurial high tech companies. At AMD, he directed the company's entry into the HPC cluster market and secured large wins such as the Red Storm system at Sandia National Laboratories and the Dawning 4000A at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center. While at AMD, he served as president of the HyperTransport Consortium, a standards organization for high-speed interconnect technology. David's earlier experience includes being the founding manager of the TotalView product line, which has become the de facto standard for parallel and distributed debugging. He served as vice president of Fujitsu System Technologies, which developed high-speed networking technology that was a pre-cursor to InfiniBand. His parallel processing experience started at BBN Technologies where he worked on the Butterfly series of computers. David received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University.