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Technical computing has become more and more important to science, engineering, and business as digital technology has given us the ability to measure and monitor the world with ever-greater frequency and specificity. According to a recent report, two years ago the amount of data that had been generated and stored was the equivalent of about 10 tons of reading material for every person on earth. Two years from now, that's expected to have expanded more than six-fold.
New advances are providing the foundation for tools and applications that will make technical computing much more affordable and accessible. Soon, a computer model that takes a team of advanced software programmers months to build and days to run will be within reach of any researcher, engineer, or financial analyst working at the PC on their desk. And as technology continues to advance, these models will become more and more complete and accurate in the way they represent the world. This will speed our ability to test new ideas, improve processes, and advance our understanding of systems.
Today's trends of large scale high performance computing, the emergence of cloud computing, and the parallel programming challenge and opportunity, will transform technical computing in a very significant way. Harnessing these advances will fundamentally change our ability to process and analyze tremendous volumes of data, and our ability to build high fidelity models of the world around us.
This talk will discuss these significant trends in the industry as well as the research and development Microsoft is pursuing in this area with its newly announced Technical Computing Initiative.
Bill Hilf is the general manager of the Technical Computing group for Microsoft Corp. In this role, Bill oversees the world-wide business for Technical Computing, one of Microsoft's newest initiatives, which focuses on solutions for a broad range of scientific and engineering challenges. The Technical Computing division specializes in research and product development ranging from desktop applications to servers & clusters, to developer tools, to cloud computing.
Previously, Bill was general manager of Windows Server Marketing and Platform Strategy, where he was responsible for global marketing of Microsoft's Windows Server products and leading Microsoft's platform strategy and Open Source interoperability efforts.
Before joining Microsoft, Hilf led IBM Corp.'s Linux/Open Source Software technical strategy at a worldwide level. Prior to IBM, Hilf held a variety of senior technical management and software architect positions for multiple Silicon Valley-based software companies. Hilf holds over ten patents in the distributed computing domain and is a graduate of Chapman University Graduate School.
Organised by: Miguel Angel Marquina
Computing Seminars /IT Department