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About Clustercorp
Clustercorp provides software, services and support based on proven solutions using the Rocks cluster distribution. Founded by veterans of the cluster computing community, Clustercorp has the experience needed to provide our customers industry leading solutions for each sector in data center management. A cluster is supposed to act as a single computing resource, it is time for users to have a single resource for systems management and support.Clustercorp is a privately held California corporation. Clustercorp's diverse board of directors includes the leaders of the Rocks Cluster Group in San Diego and Wall Street veterans from the financial sector in New York. Clustercorp is headquartered in San Jose, California, central to Silicon Valley's wealth of hi-tech resources.
Executive Team
Tim McIntire, CEO, Chairman of the BoardTim McIntire, CEO and Co-Founder of Clustercorp, has brought the cluster computing sector's thriving open source software community together with the industry's major hardware and cloud service providers to productize the delivery of clusters & clouds. McIntire's vision led to Clustercorp's development of Rocks+ and subsequent partnerships with HP, Dell, Amazon, Intel (and others) to produce clusters and clouds using a simple, repeatable process. McIntire's previous work includes leading the development team at the Digital Image Analysis Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research, which was primarily funded as part of NASA's Direct Broadcast program, has been published in various IEEE and Elsevier Journals on topics ranging from remote sensing using neural networks to parallel image processing using HPC Clusters. He also contributes or has been featured in IBM developerWorks, HPCwire, Bio IT World, Apple Developer Connection and the computational science magazine, enVision.
Mason Katz, CTO, Board Member
Mason J. Katz, CTO and Co-Founder of Clustercorp is the Group Leader for Cluster Development for the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California (UCSD) where his primary focus is on the Rocks Cluster distribution, an industry standard open-source clustering solution. Additionally, he is active in the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) having served as as co-lead for the Resources Working Group. His experience and interactions with international researchers lead directly to Rocks growing to an international developer community. Prior to his clustering experience he worked at the University of Arizona on network security protocols (IPSec), and operating systems (x-kernel, Scout), and in the commercial sector as a real-time embedded software engineer. His professional interest is the design and creation of highly maintainable and supportable systems.
Board of Directors
Philip Papadopoulos, PhD, Principal Investigator, Rocks Group, UCSD/SDSCDr. Papadopoulos received his PhD in 1993 from UC Santa Barbara in Electrical Engineering. He spent 5 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as part of the the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) development team. He is currently the Program Director of Grid and Cluster Computing at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Dr. Papadopoulos is deeply involved in key research projects at UCSD including the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), The National Biomedical Computation Resource(NBCR), the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middlware Assembly (PRAGMA) and the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA). He is also well known for leading the development of the open source Rocks Cluster toolkit, which has installed base of 1000s of clusters. His research interests revolve around distributed and clustered systems and how they can be used more effectively in an expanding bandwidth-rich environment. Dr. Papadopoulos is the Principal Investigator for NSF Grant - SDCI: NMI: Improvement: The Rocks Cluster Toolkit and Extensions to Build User-Defined Cyberenvironments (OCI-0721623) and Quartzite MRI: Development of Quartzite, a Campus-wide, Terabit-Class Field-Programmable Hybrid Switching Instrument for Comparative Studies (CNS-0421555).
Vijay Pande, PhD, Pande Group, Stanford University
Prof. Pande’s current research centers on the development and application of novel grid computing simulation techniques to address problems in chemical biology. In particular, he has pioneered novel distributed computing methodology to break fundamental barriers in the simulation of kinetics and thermodynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. Under his leadership as the Founder and Director, the Folding@Home project (http://folding.stanford.edu) has become the most powerful computer cluster in the world with over 5 petaflops of sustained performance. His current research also includes novel simulation methods for high accuracy drug binding affinity calculations, protein misfolding, and related diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease.
Greg Bruno, PhD, Rocks Group, UCSD/SDSC
Dr. Bruno is one of the founding members of the Rocks Cluster Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Bruno received his MS from UCSD in Computer Science and recently completed his PhD program where researched parallel file systems. For 10 years, Dr. Bruno worked with Teradata Systems developing cluster management software for the systems that supported the world's largest databases. Recently, he has spent the last 8 years helping to architect, design and implement the Rocks Cluster Distribution, an open source software stack that enables domain-specific scientists to build and manage their own clusters.
Kevin Kessel, VP of Investor Relations, Flextronics
Kevin Kessel is the VP of Investor Relations for Flextronics, a leading technology supply chain company with sales in excess of $24 billion focused on delivering complete design, engineering and manufacturing services to communications infrastructure, industrial, medical, automotive, clean-tech, enterprise computing and storage, ODM computing, consumer digital, and mobile OEMs. Previously Kessel was a Senior Equity Research Analyst and Vice President for JPMorgan and Bear Stearns, where he covered the Technology Supply Chain for nearly a decade and was ranked as part of the Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team numerous times. His views on companies have also been quoted by Barrons, Forbes, The New York Times, Reuters, TheStreet.com, Associated Press, Businessweek, and EE Times among others.