Comments on: Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/ Entrepreneurship and Conservation Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:39:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: steveblank http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-11987 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:22:36 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-11987 Stephen,

My one MIPS story so far is here:
http://steveblank.com/2009/11/30/customer-development-is-not-a-focus-group/

steve

]]> By: Stephen http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-11986 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:20:27 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-11986 Are you going to post anything about your time and involvemrnt with MIPS? Or maybe you have and I havent got to it yet (spent many hours a day for the past week reading through these wonderful posts!)

]]> By: Karma in the Lean Startup Era http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-2586 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:26:16 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-2586 [...] now matter more than ever because the fastest way to validate an idea is to “get out of the office” and talk to the right people. The cheapest way to get promotion is getting colleagues to [...]

]]> By: Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action « Steve Blank http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-1840 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:02:10 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-1840 [...] to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Not a trivial job considering our computer was one of the first parallel architectures, and our compiler required specific knowledge of our [...]

]]> By: Hmm http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-1684 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:33:07 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-1684 Steve you came to my school and I didn’t even know:( Boo!

]]> By: steveblank http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-1643 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:08:54 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-1643 Chris,
Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany.
Future posts will have some Ben stories.

steve

]]> By: Chris Ryland http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-1642 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:08:54 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-1642 Anyway, looking forward to this series. I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group.

]]> By: Chris Ryland http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-1641 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:06:52 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-1641 Where did Ben Wegbreit fit in the Convergent picture? Wasn’t he a CTO or something?

(He was a young prof at Harvard when I was an undergrad in ’72–76 and I knew him slightly.)

]]> By: Prakash S http://steveblank.com/2009/10/05/ardent-part-1-supercomputers-get-personal/#comment-1640 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:58:56 +0000 http://steveblank.com/?p=3732#comment-1640 Fantastic post. I liked the fact that you linked to the wikipedia page for a payphone — nice touch :-)

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