As Engineering Branch Chief for NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Division, Bill Thigpen led the team that built and deployed the 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer in just 120 days. Listed as one of the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputers, Columbia is just part of the computing resources currently being managed by Mr. Thigpen.
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