http://www.sgi.com/Headlines/1995/Mar/horst_simon.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
"Silicon Graphics has steadily increased its involvement in the supercomputing market," said Simon. "And there has been a particularly dramatic upswing during the last year in the share of high-performance computing being done on Silicon Graphics systems. I will work closely with the company's large-scale supercomputing customers in the research and university markets to ensure that it continues to build mutually beneficial longterm relationships and receive the invaluable feedback that helps drive the innovation and evolution of its products."
Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Simon worked for Computer Sciences Corporation as manager of a research department supporting the NAS (Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation) Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The mission of this group is to advance the use of high-performance computing in large-scale Computational Aeroscience (CAS) applications for the benefit of the U.S. aeronautics and high-performance computing communities.
Simon's parallel processing research received the Gordon Bell Prize in 1988, and he was a member of the NAS team that developed the NAS Parallel Benchmarks, which have become accepted as a standard for performance evaluation of MPP systems. Software based on his "recursive spectral bisection algorithm" has been widely distributed to the finite element research community and is regarded as a major breakthrough in parallel algorithms for unstructured computations.
Simon holds a Dipl. Math. from the Technische Universitat, Berlin, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of high-performance visual computing systems. The company delivers interactive three-dimensional graphics, digital media and multiprocessing supercomputing technologies to technical, scientific and creative professionals. Its subsidiary, MIPS Technologies, Inc., designs and licenses the industry's leading RISC processor technology for the computer systems and embedded control markets. Silicon Graphics has offices worldwide and headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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