On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
You clearly haven't heard of David E. Shaw or know what he's up these days. Here's the Cliff Notes version:
He has had ads in computer magazines -- at least small ads in the back -- for years and years. Usually for physicists and mathematicians. One of the few people it looked like it would be interesting to work for, actually. rgb
He made billions on Wall Street using computer models of the market, then started Schrodinger, a leading vendor of computational chemistry software (my previous employer used it heavily), where he actually wrote some of the code in their products himself. A couple of years ago, his company (D.E Shaw REsearch)had large (~1/4 page) ads in Linux Magazine looking for top Linux HPC admins to build/maintain a highly specialized computer that would be the fastest computer in the world for biochemistry applications (protein folding, etc.). He's very secretive, but the word on the street is that it will use custom processors (FPGAs?) specially designed for molecular bio/comp chem calculations, and is being built at a site in upstate NY. Google him. He's an interesting fellow. Here's a few links to get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw http://www.deshawresearch.com/ http://www.deshawresearch.com/chiefscientist.html http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/mojo_400/43_shaw.html -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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