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HPC has undergone a revolution with the advent of commodity compute clusters. Where once HPC was the domain of a specialized few researchers, now virtually any enterprise can gain access to large aggregates of processing power - holding out the promise of truly "personal supercomputing." Personal supercomputing will enable scientists and engineers to interactively employ massive computational and data processing resources to solve complex technical problems. They will be able to assemble complex models from best of breed scientific applications and most recent data sources that might span organizations and institutions, while integrating with the collaborative and business workflows. To make this revolution complete we need to reach out to organizations and users with an environment that is familiar and easy to use and exploit. This is where Microsoft products, user interfaces, and developer tools add value, by integrating these specialized resources into an environment that allows seamless computing, communication, collaboration and ultimately creativity and productivity.
Kyril Faenov is an entrepreneur, technologist and executive with a 16 year track record of global impact in the high technology industry. Presently, Kyril is a General Manager at Microsoft Corporation, responsible for one of the top Windows Server growth initiatives and bringing High Performance Computing into mainstream adoption. Kyril founded the HPC business unit in 2004 and lead the development of Windows Compute Cluster Server product, sales and marketing, and world-wide industry and academic partnerships. His prior contributions at Microsoft include running the planning process for Windows Server 2008, co-founding a distributed systems project in the office of the CTO that later became the Robotics SDK, driving cross-company strategic initiatives as a technical advisor to the Platforms Group Vice President, and developing the Network Load Balancing scale-out technology in Windows 2000. Kyril joined Microsoft in 1998 as the result of acquisition of Valence Research, an Internet server clustering startup he co-founded and grew to profitability by securing MSN, Microsoft.com and some of the world's other largest web sites as its clients. Prior to that, he was a principal technical member of two other parallel systems startups, as well as a software consultant to Intel on a variety of embedded and performance simulation projects. Kyril holds BS and MS degrees in computer science and an MBA in Technology Management. Kyril grew up in Moscow, Russia, where he trained with the Olympic Reserve swimming team and studied physics and mathematics.
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