Vice President Software Engineering, SGI, Germany

As Vice President of Software Engineering, Christian is responsible for system software and middleware development, ISV relationships and application benchmarking. In addition, he is also managing the SGI Cyclone(tm) initiative for HPC specific cloud computing. Since joining SGI in 1992, Christian has held a number of management positions in HPC system engineering, strategic partner management, performance modeling and application enablement. He initiated the Top20Auto study to analyze development of HPC platforms and applications in the automotive industry. Prior to SGI, Christian worked at Fujitsu-Siemens in compiler development and served on the Fortran 90 standardization committee. Christian holds a master's degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University of Bucharest.