Michael is a serial entrepreneur who has a passion for creating disruptive technologies for ecological and social improvements. Michael has been the CEO of 5 international technology companies and was the independent director of Rackable Systems (Acquired by Silicon Graphics). He also served as Vice Chairman of the Solar Energy Industry Association, led the sale of companies to IBM, EMC, and Globalware, been involved in two IPOs, and has had strategic and financial partnerships with Intel, HP, Microsoft, and NEC.

“The world is changing, and data is the new driving force!

While there have been remarkable improvements in computing capabilities since the introduction of the microprocessor, the basic architecture of the chip has remained largely static. Innovation has been focused on improving speed through miniaturization. But Moore’s law is reaching its limits and soon classical architectures will no longer be sufficient to handle the vast amounts of data required by today’s evolving digital economy.

Lucata is kicking off the next wave of architecture, which is long overdue. Our next-generation architecture, Pathfinder, is an extension of the Intel® architecture in a form that is compatible with any new Intel, AMD, or ARM solution introduced into the marketplace.  Pathfinder overcomes the limitations of conventional computers. It can handle vast amounts of data without sharding or pruning. Furthermore, Pathfinder allows you to discover relationships you haven’t imagined, enhances AI and machine learning, and enables real-time data streaming and analytics. We believe that we will have a greater impact over time than Nvidia has with bolt-on, repurposed GPUs.

Unlike conventional architectures, which move mountains of data to the processors, Pathfinder is a data-centric architecture that moves millions of compute threads to the memory location of the data, eliminating 80% of the system cycles of conventional architectures. It doesn’t take long for one to visualize the advantage of this in AI, and High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA).

The need to derive knowledge from vast amounts of data while maintaining compliance and data security will soon dwarf the capabilities of current architectures and accelerators. Lucata will become the solution of choice for discovering and acting upon real-time data intelligence.”