StartupHPC Blog
ISC HPC Entrepreneurship Meet-Up
Thanks to ISC, there will be a short session at ISC 2021 Digital focused on Entrepreneurship on July 1, 4:30pm CET. We hope this is the start of more, and more frequent, efforts to promote entrepreneurship in HPC. The ISC event page has more information. You need to be registered for the event to signup […]
StartupHPC Update
I hope you are all doing well in a year that has challenged everyone. This is an update on the work that continues at StartupHPC. Thanks to the support of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), we had plans to have a significant program at ISC this past year and we look forward to reviving those […]
StartupHPC17: Time for an Informal Meetup
StartupHPC17 will be a bit different! When we started StartupHPC, holding traditional (informal) meetup events seemed like the way to go. But we soon realized that we needed a more structured way of providing a relatively broad educational material. We wanted to cover the gamut: how you form a business entity, what VCs look for, legal and […]
StartupHPC16 Speakers … Oh My!
StartupHPC16 Speakers, part 1 Gustafson, Grider, Goldfarb, Gilpin – Sanyal, Lawrence, Lyons and more … oh my! Every year StartupHPC reminds me to never take anything – really anyone – for granted. Entering our third year, and as with each year before, our third meeting is another line-up of amazing, accomplished industry legends (and some […]
Agenda: StartupHPC-16 in Salt Lake City
(This page will be kept to up to date to reflect the latest agenda.) Registrations are now open for our third annual gathering. StartupHPC-16 will be held on Nov. 14th in Salt Lake City as we track SC16. It promises to be our strongest gathering with a distinguished roster of speakers and an exciting agenda. Be there! Video […]
CxO Panel Goes Deep on Challenges and Joys of Entrepreneurship
For this year’s StartupHPC Summit in Austin, the CxO Panel discussion will probe a range of challenges that panelists have faced as they lead their organizations towards market success and innovation. We are fortunate to have a distinguished panel representing several decades of wisdom in hardware and software, systems and chips, and with large company experience as well as […]
Brent Gorda Inspires Generations of Genius
Joins StartupHPC to Share His Journey as Serial Entrepreneur What do StartupHPC, Top 500 systems, parallel computing, National Labs, and the Student Cluster Competition have in common with country music bands, bull riding, beanie babies and the Tour de France? The common thread is Brent Gorda. The HPC luminary, self-starting entrepreneur, and keynote speaker at […]
StartupHPC Summit to Inspire STEM and HPC Entrepreneurs
We issued the following press release today about the StartupHPC Summit-15 on November 16th. Looking forward to seeing you all in Austin. #StartupHPC Summit to Inspire #STEM and #HPC #Entrepreneurs #SC15 Host City ATX a Showcase for Startups at Second Annual Event Austin, Texas, October 20, 2015 – StartupHPC, a grass roots community to promote entrepreneurship […]
Gravitational Forces Collide: StartupHPC @ ATX Capital Factory
Wanna leave home (offices), get out of the garage … join StartupHPC! With the November ‘meet up’ and SC15 in my backyard … we’ve pulled together another amazing lineup promising to make this year’s StartupHPC the ‘hot ticket’. (Again!) Our first major headliner … Venue! But in the Live Music Capital of the World – […]
Agenda: StartupHPC-15 in Austin, TX
(This page will be kept to up to date to reflect the latest agenda.) Registrations are now open for our second annual gathering. StartupHPC-15 will be held on Nov. 16th in Austin as we track SC’15. We are very excited about another awesome agenda, great speakers, and insightful advice. Be there! Video clips of last year’s […]
StartupHPC-14-NewOrleans: How did it go?
StartupHPC-14-NewOrleans: What a great day! To those of you who were able to attend our first gathering, a hearty thank you. And thank you, our amazing speakers. Here are some photos from the event on StartupHPC’s Facebook page: Post by Startup HPC. In addition to making this an annual event in the US, we’ve also […]
Why Aren’t There More Startups in HPC?
(This interview with Nicole Hemsoth was originally published in HPCwire on October, 13, 2014.) As we watch the mainstream technology world capture attention and garner massive amounts of funding, many are asking why some of the most bleeding edge tech on the planet in high performance computing doesn’t attract the same level of interest. While […]
Content is King! Meetup Speaker Roster Shines
At roughly six weeks out from SC14 and our first StartupHPC meet-up, if you aren’t registered yet, you should! It’s going to sell out and if you’re not there you’re going to be bummed out! How can I be so confident? This meet up is going to be unlike any other you’ve attended, first because it’s […]
AWS Community Heroes Program Recognizes Adrian Cockcroft
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a program to recognize “enthusiasts who have gone above and beyond to make significant contributions to the cloud community and have taken the next step to share that expertise with others.” Congratulations to Adrian Cockcroft for being named one of the first AWS Community Heroes. We’re honored to have Adrian keynote our upcoming Meetup in […]
What is HPC?
Hardware? Software? Application? Network? Storage? Cooling? Services (as a Cloud, Grid …)? A discipline? An idea? IMHO, the answer is yes, all of the above, plus plus plus … an industry, a community, a lifelong career, family, an art (as well as a science). Opportunity! To me HPC is … boundless! HPC is constant change, […]
From Science to Serial Entrepreneurship (or Intrapreneurship)
As we formulated the agenda for our upcoming meetup, two of the topics that we wanted to cover were: How do you cross over, so to say, from doing research in HPC to being part of a small and growing company? What are the pros and cons of working for a big company vs a small […]
They should invent…
How often do you hear (or say) ‘they should invent fill in the blank”? Any time I hear ‘they should’ … my retort is: “we” are the “they” … if there is a gap … why wouldn’t we be the individual to invent ‘it’ ourselves? We are the they! Taking that idea that has the […]
Meetup-14: The Latest, Up-to-date Agenda
(This page will be kept to up to date to reflect the latest agenda.)Registrations are now open for our first meetup! We hope you can attend. The agenda for our meetup in New Orleans on Nov 17th is shaping up nicely. We’re honored to have such prominent speakers. Their enthusiasm to participate is an indication […]
Let’s Meet! Nov. 17, New Orleans
How do you become an entrepreneur? Supercomputing ’14 (SC14) will be in New Orleans this year. And we are holding our first meetup on Nov 17th in New Orleans. This is a “how-to” session with practical advice, discussion, and Q&A together with some of the best minds in this area. Please check out the agenda, and come, meet […]
Welcome to StartupHPC
How did we get here? A few months ago, there was a news article going around that talked bout how hard it was for a fresh PhD in scientific fields to find a job. “What?” was my impulsive reaction, probably shared by many others. How can it be that someone who represents the highest level […]
