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Cray Co-Founder Joins Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the switching-horses dept.

ergo98 writes "Burton Smith, co-founder and chief scientist at Cray (The Supercomputer Company), has jumped ship. He's joining Microsoft to help them with their clustered computer initiative. Burton joins Microsoft as a technical fellow."

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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft also announced Windows Vista will require a Cray supercomputer to run.

  2. A golden age of Fellows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    The new supercomputing fellow position will be a great complement to Microsoft's existing technology fellowships:
    • Menu drop shadow fellow
    • Tail-recursive Windows-Update/reboot dependency cycle fellow
    • Cartoon balloon notification fellow
    • CD-ROM executable file autorun fellow
    • Animated dog search technology fellow
    • Cool full screen color effect fade fellow
    • File replacement/deletion semantics fellow
    • Marketshare defensive game theory fellow

    Truly exciting research and development is in store at Microsoft!.