About HPCwire

HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Productivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications.

HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers.

HPCwire History - A rich tradition in HPC...

The origin of HPCwire.com dates back to 1986 with the hardcopy publication Supercomputing Review. The launch of this progressive magazine coincided with the evolution of supercomputing; from its limited accessibility in secure environments to its transition to the mainstream realm of university researchers. In early 1989 Supercomputing Review commenced a 'prehistoric,' pre-web browser software, electronic publishing effort on a clunky ASCII, UNIX based bulletin board service; then the principle means of distributing news at a blazing 1200 baud per second (bps).

Supercomputing Review's journey from a hardcopy publication to an Internet publication was stymied by one enormous obstacle: the Internet Use Policy, which prohibited the commercial use of the Internet. Inconceivably, at this particular time the Internet was a newly developed, completely noncommercial, and heavily policed medium with only two to three providers. As the popularity of the Internet expanded, the original administrators met with a plethora of difficulties including: support issues, service issues, and discrepancies regarding standards and protocols. In order to resolve these problems thwarting the management of the Internet, DARPA contracted IBM and Sprint to oversee Internet usage. Together these companies developed and enacted CORE+, a program designed to allow restricted commercial usage of the Internet. With the advent of CORE+ and the financial support of IBM, Supercomputing Review became one of the first content providers on the Internet. After this breakthrough, Supercomputing Review produced SUPERnet, an internet-based supercomputing industry portal, which was able to charge advertisers and provide important HPC information free to users.

The innovative HPC leaders like Cray, IBM, Sun, SGI, Stardent, MasPar, MacStrat, Multiflow, Thinking Machines, HP, and Convex, financially underwrote the costs of SUPERnet; allowing the portal to evolve into HPCwire/Select News, an ad-driven publication delivered via email. In February of 2002, HPCwire/Select News became HPCwire, the first paid advertising, paid subscription, text-on-demand, Internet publication modeled after a hardcopy magazine.

A true Internet publishing veteran, Tabor Communications, Inc. has provided turnkey electronic publishing systems and consultation services for such leading companies as IBM, Intel, Lumina LTD, Hahn Corp. Sub Micron Systems, DMC Marketing, and Tylan General. Tabor Communications, Inc.'s publications include subscribers and business relationships with many of the key members of the Internet and data intensive computing industries, as well as every high performance computing center, major military and government departments, including:

American Cyanamid, American Express, Amoco, Atlantic Richfield, Arco, Bank of America, Beckman, Bell Tel., Boeing, Chevron, Cray Research, Credite Suisse, Goldman Sachs & Co., Kodak, DEC, DuPont, ExaByte, Ford, GE, GM, Goodyear, Grumman, Hewlett Packard, Hewitt, Hughes, IBM, IDG, Intel, JPL, Lockheed, MCC, MCI, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Army Research Laboratory, Army APGEA, AF Supercomputer Center (Kirkland), The White House, Wright/Patterson AFB (Research), Polk AFB, ARPA, BMR, DOE, EPA, FNAL, INEL, LARC, LANL, LLNL, Navy Research Lab, NOSC, NSWS, NASA, NCAR, NCIFCRF, NERSC, NIH, NIST, NOAA, NSF, ORNL, PNL, Sandia National Laboratories, Berkeley, Bucknell, CalTech, Carnegie, Cornell Theory Center, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Purdue, U of PA, U. of Texas Sys. Ctr. for HPC, UCLA, San Diego SCC, U of PA, Yale, NCSA, Alaska, Argonne Nat'l. Labs, China Lake Naval Weapons Center, HARC, MN SC, NASA Ames, Pitts SC, U of TX Ctr. HPC, Monsanto, J.P. Morgan, Motorola, Rockwell, Rohm & Haas, SAIC, Shell Oil, Sun Oil, Smith-Kline Beecham, TI, TRW, UAI, Union Carbide, Xerox and more.

The HPCwire Team

Publisher :

Tom Tabor
Publisher, HPCwire

Tom is a publisher of HPCwire and has served as publisher for GRIDtoday, High Performance Computing - Contributions to Society (1996), The Emergence of Grid and Service-Oriented IT (2006), as well as producing a series of Grid VIP Summits worldwide. Tom was formerly the publisher of the award winning Supercomputing Review magazine, and has over 30 years of experience in business-to-business publishing, with the last 22 years focused primarily on High Productivity Computing (HPC) technologies.

Tom has been internationally acknowledged as a pioneer in the electronic publishing industry. In the late eighties Tom launched an Internet-based version of Supercomputing Review titled SUPERnet, the very first paid subscription, paid advertising internet publication, followed by the highly successful HPCwire in the early nineties.

Tom is a frequent speaker at global industry events. He has served as a leader and member of many committees and organizations including the Open Grid Forum's Awareness Council, SC Industrial Advisory Committee, Humanities Arts Social Sciences Awareness Council (HASTAC), the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (iCHASS) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the San Diego Men's Leadership Forum. He also serves as a Board member of The National University Institute and is a past board member of The LUX Art Institute. In 2002, Tom was awarded the inaugural HPC Industry Recognition Award.

Tom was born on Guam and raised in Napa Valley, California. He did his undergraduate work in Political Science at University of California, Davis. Tom currently lives in La Jolla, California. He is an avid skier and weekend golfer.

Jeffrey Hyman, Associate Publisher

Jeff is an Associate Publisher at HPCwire. He brings more than 25 years of sales and management experience, and is responsible for worldwide sales for the company's broad line of products. Jeff was Vice President of Sales for IDG's Bio-ITWorld magazine, whose focus is on HPC used specifically within the life sciences to accelerate the pace of drug discovery and development. Prior to IDG, Jeff held sales positions at CMP's Informationweek and CMGI's Engage Technologies. Jeff holds a BS from Babson College and an MBA from Suffolk University. He resides in North Andover, MA with his wife Grace, his son Jack and their two pure bred Bichon Frise's, Willy and Maya.

Editorial :

Michael Feldman, HPCwire Managing Editor

Michael Feldman is the HPCWire Managing Editor. Michael has worked over 30 years in the computer industry. He spent the first 25 years as a programmer/analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and then as a software engineer with Aonix Corporation. While at CSC, Michael worked as a Department of Defense contractor, developing and maintaining OS utilities for Navy time-sharing systems, preparing software deliveries, and providing software support for sites worldwide. At Aonix, he developed the runtime kernels for the company's Ada compiler product line.

Michael became managing editor of HPCWire in 2005, expanding the scope of the newsletter into a full-featured online news site for the high performance computing community. Today he is responsible for the editorial content of the publication, including his share of feature writing. Michael also maintains his own "From the Editor" blog to offer a personal perspective on current events in the HPC community. In addition, he acts as the Editorial Director for Tabor Communications Inc., coordinating strategy for the company's editorial products.

Michael has a B.S. degree in Microbiology from the University of Maryland and a B.S in Computer Science from Chapman University. He resides in San Diego, with his wife, Patricia, two dogs, Tino and Oscar, and 18 fish, who shall remain anonymous.

Tiffany Trader, HPCwire Associate Editor

Tiffany Trader is the associate editor for HPCwire. She received a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University, where she studied Linguistics and Computer Science. A self-described "linguaphile" and grammarian, Tiffany has been with Tabor Communications for over three years. In her free time, she can be found on her yoga mat or walking her three dogs.

Marketing & Audience Development :

Isaac Lopez, Director of Marketing & Audience Development

As Public Relations and Marketing professional, Isaac spent 10 years in technology industry. He joined Tabor Communications in 2007 as Marketing and Brand Manager and served as project manager for the HPCwire website redesign. In 2008 Isaac was promoted to the position of Marketing Director.

Before joining Tabor Communications Isaac worked as a Public Relations & Marketing account executive with Noblemen Communications, providing strategic and tactical marketing support for companies like Intel, Compaq, Sharp, Motorola, Etnus (now TotalView Technologies), Portland Group, WatchGuard Technologies, InterSect360 Research and others. Isaac's responsibilities included campaign planning, article pitching and placement, tactical execution of product launches, editorial product review programs, media tours, collateral building, podcast producing, and more ...

Isaac graduated in 1999 from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor Degree of Arts in Public Relations.

Isaac currently resides in the Portland, Oregon area (Vancouver, WA) with his wife, 3 year old son, dog, cat - and a have baby due in September 2010. In his spare time he enjoys backpacking, snowboarding, cycling, photography, and the outdoors in general.

Sales :

Mitchell D. Becker, Senior Account Executive

Mitch Becker is a Senior Account Executive at Tabor Communications. He brings with him nineteen years of experience in marketing management, developing marketing strategies, organizing marketing events, promotions, and Public Relations.

Mitch is in charge of direct sales activities for TCI's High Performance Computing publication, HPCwire.com. He constantly maintains strategic relationships with Fortune 500 technology leaders and provides lead generation and ROI reports on all marketing activities.

In the past Mitch's roles included such positions as Director of Marketing, where he managed the inception and marketing promotion activities, advertising, web content, collateral, tradeshows, seminars, e-mail and direct mail campaigns and all lead generation activities and PR.

Mitch received his Bachelor of Science and Associates of Applied Science Degrees at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, IL.

Ana Vasquez, Sales Operations Manager

Ana Vasquez is the Sales Operations Manager at Tabor Communications. With over 10 years of administrative experience she has been instrumental in helping TCI achieve its yearly revenue goals. Her current role also enables her to work hand in hand with TCI's customers in executing their advertising strategies through its flagship publication HPCwire.

Ana received an Associate's degree from Southwestern College.

Web Operations :

John Shandor, Webmaster

John is the Webmaster for HPCwire and Tabor Communications, a position he has held since 1997, contributing more than 25 years' experience in web design and digital media. John holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Arizona State University, and resides in Summerton, South Carolina.