Silicon Informatics


Goals Silicon Informatics strives to revolutionize High Performance Computing by creating lightning fast, cost effective, dedicated, and accurate solutions to HPC users. No queues, no wait, total control. Company Silicon Informatics’ founders are seasoned entrepreneurs, having successful track records in computing, microelectronics, software and communications. While Mr. Keller was at Xilinx, he observed that FPGAs and other types of co-processors offer great potential for accelerating software applications that require higher levels of performance. Now, Silicon Informatics has improved upon these technologies, developing an innovative way to made them available to individual users through an affordable, easy-to-use, dedicated server product that transforms any laptop or PC into a high performance computer. Bob Keller, Founder and CEO Immediately prior to founding Silicon Informatics, Bob was an executive with San Jose-based Xilinx, Inc., a leading manufacturer of field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. Mr. Keller had been part of the executive team of RocketChips, Inc., a privately held company that was acquired by Xilinx in November, 2000 for $280 million in stock. Mr. Keller holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Grove City College, an M.B.A. from the University of Utah, and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law. Mr, Keller also served in the US Air Force Reserve, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. Hemant Trivedi, Vice President of Product Development Hemant's favorite pastime is fine tuning Silicon Informatics’ performance for 14 hours daily, never being satisfied with even a 100X performance gain on the competition. Mr. Trivedi specializes in high performance systems design, software and data communications. Mr. Trivedi previously served as CEO of Terago Communications, CTO of Neo Networks, and has held senior engineering and design positions at Transition Networks and Digi International. Mr. Trivedi holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and performed graduate work at North Dakota State Univeristy. Ray Johnson, Director Ray Johnson is the former co-founder of RocketChips and now President and CEO of a venture-backed thin film battery company, Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. in Golden, Colorado. Prior to launching RocketChips, Ray held several senior executive positions with Honeywell, Alliant TechSystems, Decision Systems and Lemna International. Richard C. Perkins, Director Dick is Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager and director of Perkins Capital Management, Inc. where he specializes in growth securities. Mr. Perkins is also a registered representative of ASKAR Corp. Mr. Perkins served as a director of RocketChips, Inc. from December 1996 through its acquisition by Xilinx in November 2000.

Goals
Silicon Informatics strives to revolutionize High Performance Computing by creating lightning fast, cost effective, dedicated, and accurate solutions to HPC users. No queues, no wait, total control.

Company
Silicon Informatics’ founders are seasoned entrepreneurs, having successful track records in computing, microelectronics, software and communications. While Mr. Keller was at Xilinx, he observed that FPGAs and other types of co-processors offer great potential for accelerating software applications that require higher levels of performance. Now, Silicon Informatics has improved upon these technologies, developing an innovative way to made them available to individual users through an affordable, easy-to-use, dedicated server product that transforms any laptop or PC into a high performance computer.

Bob Keller, Founder and CEO
Immediately prior to founding Silicon Informatics, Bob was an executive with San Jose-based Xilinx, Inc., a leading manufacturer of field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices. Mr. Keller had been part of the executive team of RocketChips, Inc., a privately held company that was acquired by Xilinx in November, 2000 for $280 million in stock. Mr. Keller holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Grove City College, an M.B.A. from the University of Utah, and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law. Mr, Keller also served in the US Air Force Reserve, retiring as a Lt. Colonel.
Hemant Trivedi, Vice President of Product Development
Hemant's favorite pastime is fine tuning Silicon Informatics’ performance for 14 hours daily, never being satisfied with even a 100X performance gain on the competition. Mr. Trivedi specializes in high performance systems design, software and data communications. Mr. Trivedi previously served as CEO of Terago Communications, CTO of Neo Networks, and has held senior engineering and design positions at Transition Networks and Digi International. Mr. Trivedi holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology and performed graduate work at North Dakota State Univeristy.
Ray Johnson, Director
Ray Johnson is the former co-founder of RocketChips and now President and CEO of a venture-backed thin film battery company, Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. in Golden, Colorado. Prior to launching RocketChips, Ray held several senior executive positions with Honeywell, Alliant TechSystems, Decision Systems and Lemna International.
Richard C. Perkins, Director
Dick is Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager and director of Perkins Capital Management, Inc. where he specializes in growth securities. Mr. Perkins is also a registered representative of ASKAR Corp. Mr. Perkins served as a director of RocketChips, Inc. from December 1996 through its acquisition by Xilinx in November 2000.


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