Levesque joins CraySeattle 28 August 2001 High-performance computing industry veteran John Levesque has joined Cray as senior technologist. Among his accomplishments, Levesque created and led IBM Research's Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC).
In his new position, Levesque will evaluate market requirements
and technologies, and will lead a number of strategic projects.
Before joining Cray Inc., Levesque was director of software
development for a privately held provider of storage systems, and led
that company's Linux, Unix and Windows initiatives. At IBM Research,
the ACTC group Levesque directed worked with users to port and
optimize applications for the IBM SP system.
Earlier, Levesque was president of Applied Parallel Research, a
software firm that developed tools for parallelizing applications, and
a vice president at Pacific Sierra Research, where he led the group
that created two well-known high-performance programming tools called
VAST and FORGE.
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