DDN Co-Founder Alex Bouzari Receives Inaugural HPCwire Legends Award

DDN Co-Founder Alex Bouzari, AI ● Photo Credit: DDN

CHATSWORTH, Calif., August 23, 2024 (BUSINESS WATCH GLOBAL) - DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced that its CEO and co-founder, Alex Bouzari, has been awarded the inaugural HPCwire Legends Award. This honor recognizes Bouzari's significant contributions to the High-Performance Computing (HPC) industry, placing him alongside other notable figures such as NVIDIA co-founder Jensen Huang and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

Bouzari, who co-founded DDN with Paul Bloch, has in developed data intelligence platforms that have supported some of the world's most advanced supercomputers for over two decades. These innovations have facilitated advancements in various fields, including healthcare, climate modeling, global security, and high-energy physics.

"Being recognized alongside legends like NVIDIA's co-founder Jensen Huang and Intel's co-founder Gordon Moore is an extraordinary honor," Bouzari stated. He attributed the accolade to "the relentless innovation and dedication of our team at DDN," emphasizing the company's role in "supercharging the AI global economy today."

DDN's Data Intelligence Platform currently supports over 500,000 GPUs across multiple industries, including autonomous driving, healthcare, financial services, research, public sector, and academia. The platform is crucial for managing Large Language Models and Generative AI workloads, providing high performance and power efficiency from data centers to the edge.

The HPCwire Legends Award highlights Bouzari's influence as a visionary in the field and reinforces DDN's position as a leader in high-performance computing and AI-driven data management solutions.

For more information about the Legends Award and DDN's contributions to the HPC landscape, visit DDN's blog.

Source: DataDirect Networks (DDN) via PR Newswire