a SiArch and who’s on it? are just a couple of the questions spurred by this week’s revelation that one of the key developers of Sun’s SPARC architecture, Marc Tremblay,
Office Standard 2010 X86, has joined Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer. Tremblay will work on the SiArch (Strategic Software/Silicon Architectures) team at Microsoft. is part of Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie’s domain. From a recent job posting, here’s what SiArch does: Software/Silicon Architectures (SiArch,
Office 2010 Standard 64 Bit, pronounced “psi-ark”) is looking for a senior technology manager to coordinate efforts working with one of our hardware partners,
Office 2007 Standard Aktivierung, and to orchestrate the cross divisional development of Microsoft’s technical strategy with respect to that partner, in a number of critical software/hardware boundary areas. SiArch reports into the Advanced Strategies & Policy division and is chartered with ensuring the success of novel advances in software and hardware by working cross divisionally to develop the Microsoft-wide strategies and build strong relationships with key hardware partners.” chip guys and/or former Sun folks onboard at Microsoft isn’t unprecedented. Jim Rottsolk,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus Product Key, Senior Director of SiArch,
Office Enterprise 2007 Activation, is a former Cray CEO. And another Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, Yousef Khalidi — a former Sun utility-computing expert — is one of the key members of the Microsoft Red Dog cloud-computing team. addition to interfacing directly with Microsoft’s key hardware partners, SiArch also is helping set Microsoft’s strategy in the parallel computing, green computing and adaptive computing arenas (as SiArch architect Ty Carlson’s bio makes plain). isn’t the only group inside the company focusing on the challenges of parallel/distributed computing. A variety of teams at Microsoft are working to make Microsoft’s operating systems, tools and applications better able to take advantage of parallel, distributed and multicore architectures. The longer-term Microsoft Tahiti and Midori projects are both part of these efforts.