Marc Hamilton

Who is Marc Hamilton?

Marc Hamilton is Vice President of Solaris marketing at Sun

Microsystems where

he is responsible for managing both Sun's Solaris business and the

OpenSolaris community. Prior to starting his current role in 2007,

Hamilton ran Sun's global systems practice solutions organization

responsible for developing Sun's HPC, Web, and Data Center

Virtualization solutions. In that role he oversaw the development of

the fastest supercomputer in Asia, at Tokyo Institute of Technology,

and the first industry standard supercomputer designed to achieve over

1/2 Petaflop of performance at the Texas Advanced Computing Center

(TACC). Hamilton has held a variety of systems engineering and sales

role during his 14 years at Sun.Prior

to Sun, Hamilton worked at TRW developing HPC applications for the US

aerospace and defense industry including a 9000 cell parallel

processing engine. He has published a number of technical articles and

is the author of the book, "Software Development, Building Reliable

Systems". Mr. Hamilton holds a BS degree in Math and Computer Science

from UCLA, an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from USC, and is a

graduate of the UCLA Executive Management program.