HPCwire Brings You an Exclusive Podcast Interview with Intel

Join Diane Bryant, Intel Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Server Platforms Group to discuss Intel's newest platforms and latest benchmarks and what this means for HPC.

Also hear Dr. Stephen Wheat, Director of Intel's High Performance Computing Platform Office as he discusses the latest Intel vs. AMD comparisons, thoughts on HPC tools and application development, and his personal perspective on the Top 500.

Podcast Participants

Diane M. Bryant
Vice President, Digital Enterprise Group
General Manager, Server Platforms Group
INTEL CORPORATION

Diane M. Bryant is vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group and general manager of the Server Platforms Group for Intel Corporation. She is responsible for development and delivery of single- and dual-processor server and workstation platforms, encompassing all elements of the platform including hardware, software and services from both Intel and external industry sources. Bryant also holds the position of director of the Corporate Platform Office, responsible for driving the transformation of Intel to a platform directed company.

Previously, Bryant held several positions, including co-general manager of the Enterprise Processor Division, responsible for the architecture, design and delivery of Intel Xeon and Itanium processors, and director of mobile engineering, responsible for development of all mobile processors and chipsets. She also managed the development of the Itanium 2 processor and platform.

Bryant received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from U.C. Davis in 1985 and joined Intel the same year. She holds four U.S. patents.

Dr. Stephen Wheat
Director, High Performance Computing Platform Organization
INTEL CORPORATION

Dr. Stephen Wheat is the Senior Director of Intels High Performance Computing Platform Organization. He is responsible for the development of Intels HPC strategy and the pursuit of that strategy through platform architecture, software, tools, sales and marketing, and eco-system development and collaborations.

Dr. Wheat has a wide breadth of experience that gives him a unique perspective in understanding large scale HPC deployments. He was the Advanced Development manager for the Storage Components Division, the manager of the RAID Products Development group, the manager of the Workstation Products Group software and validation groups, and manager of the systems software group within the Supercomputing Systems Division (SSD). At SSD, he was a Product Line Architect and was the systems software architect for the ASCI Red system. Before joining Intel in 1995, Dr. Wheat worked at Sandia National Laboratories, performing leading research in distributed systems software, where he created and led the SUNMOS and PUMA/Cougar programs. Dr. Wheat is a Gordon Bell prize winner and has been awarded Intel's prestigious Achievement Award. He has a patent in Dynamic Load Balancing in HPC systems.

Dr. Wheat holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has several publications on the subjects of load balancing, inter-process communication, and parallel I/O in large-scale HPC systems. Outside of Intel, he is a commercial multi-engine pilot and a certified multi-engine flight instructor.

Podcast Hosted By

Michael Bernhardt
Associate Publisher, HPCwire and GRIDtoday

Mike Bernhardt is a well known HPC industry veteran and the Associate Publisher at Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire and GRIDtoday. He is a widely requested speaker, panel moderator and panel participant, and frequently contributes industry analysis, commentary and opinion at a wide range of industry events and corporate meetings. With 30 years of experience in the high end of the computer industry, Bernhardt has applied his unique blend of marketing and business savvy to benefit many organizations facing the deployment and adoption of industry changing trends such as Virtualization, Grid computing, Service-Oriented IT, Seamless Mobility and Communications and Computing Convergence, helping organizations understand these trends and how to best position their companies, products and solutions in terms of the bigger picture. As a former Intel marketing executive, Bernhardt knows the importance of developing take-to-market strategy based on sound positioning and keen market understanding. He has served as a marketing and business development advisor to a number of Fortune 50 organizations as well as dozens of start-up business ventures.