Microsoft’s new multicore-computing guru speaks out

Supercomputing expert Dan Reed is to lead Microsoft’s efforts in multicore technology and next-generation data centers. "I watched Mosaic come up out of the ground and I watched my students go off to start-ups, and I promised myself that if the surf was up again that I was going to grab my board and get in the water," Reed told Network World Senior Editor John Fontana, during a chat about Reed’s move from academia and what he says could be a coming revolution that rivals the development of the Web.