As
Corporate Vice President of the eXtreme Computing Group
(XCG), Dan
Reed is responsible for R&D on the cutting edge of parallel
and
ultrafast computing. In addition to directing Microsoft's
research in
these areas, he spearheads collaborations with university
and government
researchers working in the field, and represents the company
in related
public policy discussions. He is also responsible for
Microsoft's cloud
computing research.
XCG was
formed in June of 2009 with the goal of developing radical
new
approaches to ultrascale and high-performance computing
hardware and
software, an area of research that the U.S. government has
identified as
critical for the future. The group's research activities
include work in
computer security, cryptography, operating system design,
parallel
programming models, cloud software, data center
architectures, specialty
hardware accelerators and quantum computing.
Reed joined
Microsoft in December 2007 as Scalable and Multicore
Computing Strategist. In February 2008 he took on the added
responsibility of directing a new Cloud Computing Futures
initiative,
which is exploring new approaches to cloud services and data
center
design, including ways to reduce hardware costs and power
consumption,
and increasing data centers' adaptability and resilience to
failure.
Before
coming to Microsoft, Reed held a number of strategic
positions,
including Gutgsell Professor, Head of the Department of
Computer Science
and Director of the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at
the University of Illinois, Chancellor's Eminent Professor
at the
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and
Founding Director
of UNC's Renaissance Computing Institute. He was also the
Chancellor's
Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation at UNC.
In addition
to his technical activities, Reed has also been deeply
involved in U.S. policy initiatives related to science,
technology and
innovation. He served as a member of the U.S. President's
Council of
Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and chair of the
computational science subcommittee of the President's
Information
Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).
Reed has
also served as chair of the board of directors of the
Computing Research Association (CRA) and chief architect for
the National Science
Foundation's TeraGrid project (a shared network of
supercomputers,
storage and scientific visualization systems).
He received a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Missouri
University of Science
and Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science
from Purdue University.
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