Meet the Mellanox HPC Experts
Ask anything to our experts below about the technical and architecture aspects of HPC via Twitter #AskMellanox or Facebook at www.facebook.com/MellanoxTech.
Michael Kagan – Chief Technology Officer
Michael Kagan is a co-founder of Mellanox and has served as CTO since January 2009. Previously, Mr. Kagan served as vice president of architecture from May 1999 to December 2008. From August 1983 to April 1999, Mr. Kagan held a number of architecture and design positions at Intel Corporation. While at Intel Corporation, between March 1993 and June 1996, Mr. Kagan managed Pentium MMX design, and from July 1996 to April 1999, he managed the architecture team of the Basic PC product group. Mr. Kagan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.
Dror Goldenberg – Vice President of Architecture
Dror Goldenberg joined Mellanox in 2000 and is responsible for leading the systems architecture organization, silicon, software and firmware architecture, systems architecture and InfiniBand specification development. Over the last 10 years, he served numerous architecture and design positions where he developed six generations of adapter silicon from design to production. Prior to Mellanox, Dror held various software development positions at an elite R&D team in the Israeli Defense Force. Prior to that, Dror was a member of the Pentium MMX and Pentium 4 architecture validation teams at Intel. He graduated Cum Laude with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and holds an MBA from the Technion Institute of Technology Israel.
Yaron Haviv – Vice President of Data Center Solutions
Yaron Haviv has served as Mellanox's vice president of data center solutions since February 2011. Prior to Mellanox, Mr. Haviv was chief technology officer at Voltaire from 2001 to 2011, vice president of research and development and chief designer from 1999 to 2001, and was the chief designer responsible for the system architecture of Voltaire's InfiniBand solutions from 1997 to 1999. Previously, Mr. Haviv served as a hardware and chip designer at Scitex Corporation Ltd., an Israeli-based developer, manufacturer, marketer and servicer of interactive computerized prepress systems for the graphic design, printing, and publishing markets. Mr. Haviv holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Diego Crupnicoff – Sr. Director of Architecture
Diego Crupnicoff is Sr. Director of Architecture at Mellanox Technologies. Diego has been with Mellanox since 1999 driving chip and system architectures for 5 generations of Mellanox products. He has been a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association since its beginnings, a Spec author since its first release and chair of the IBTA Technical Working Group since 2006. Diego has been a founding director of the OpenFabrics Alliance and now chairs its Technology Advisory Council. Diego is also a member of the IEEE 802.1 group that defines the next generation of Ethernet networks and the T11 committee that is in charge of the Fibre Channel specification. Diego is an inventor in multiple patents in the areas of computer networks and system architectures, and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) and a M.Sc. in EE. (Summa Cum Laude) both from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.