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The startup world isn’t for everyone, but Claudia Ring can’t help but be drawn to the “craziness” of them — even after working at IBM for several years. On this episode of Tech Qualified, Justin Brown interviews Claudia about her most recent startup adventure as the Head of Marketing at rENIAC, a data engine platform. rENIAC is a bit technical, to say the least, but Claudia succinctly defines the company’s mission, product and target audience before walking us through her experience building the startup’s marketing department from the ground up. “A lot of teams will just start to try to run demand-gen programs without that foundation beneath their feet,” Claudia says. But you need, at the very least, a tool to track your analytics and a well-established voice and Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). As if launching a startup’s marketing department isn’t enough, COVID-19 has really thrown a “monkey wrench” in things, Claudia says. But she’s rolled with it by planning a number of virtual events. Attendance has been surprisingly high, though she doesn’t expect the enthusiasm to last forever. When interest wanes, she’ll simply adapt — much like she does day-to-day at any startup she’s worked with.

Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Chidamber Kulkarni. Chidamber has been working on various aspects of FPGA technology for 16+ years now. In the last 5-6 years his primary focus has been acceleration of database and related technologies. Chidamber is a founder & CTO of Reniac Inc, a company that specializes in database acceleration with FPGAs. Prior to Reniac, Chidamber was at Xilinx for 9 years as design engineer. Chidamber has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke, a research university in Belgium. Click Here –> For more information about tech careersEpisode Summary“We are getting larger and larger chips. But the power density is something that has been almost constant for the last 5 or 7 years. That has been a limitation, and that's why they started scaling the number of cores in one chip. GPUs did that almost 10 years before the processors and the reason they had to do it is because they discovered parallelism in rendering. So they already had 64 cores and 128 cores by the time the uni-core became the dual core.""So there's literally 100 X that you can get with FPGAs. But the effort required to realize that implementation today is still quite high. The challenge for FPGA vendors is how to make that programming easier.""Skill is very important, but I think skill can be learned. What cannot be transplanted easily is aptitude and motivation."—Chidamber KulkarniIn this episode we’ll cover:Why did Chidamber leave academia for the FPGA space?What is the difference between CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs?When did Chidamber start rENIAC? Why did he choose to dive into accelerating open source databases?Additional ResourcesLearn more about field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_arrayLearn more about Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIACEp. 4 Goldman Sachs Saved My Tech Career, with Camille FournierYou can find more resources in the show notesTo learn more about our podcast go to https://develomentor.com/To listen to previous episodes go to https://develomentor.com/blog/Follow Chidamber KulkarniTwitter: @chidamberLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/chidamber/Follow Develomentor:Twitter: @develomentorFollow Grant IngersollTwitter: @gsingersLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantingersoll

Prasanna Sundararajan, founder and CEO for rENIAC, Inc., joins Chip Chat to talk about using Intel® FPGAs to accelerate demanding data-centric applications. rENIAC's solutions leverage Intel FPGAs to help customers surmount the unprecedented challenges presented by new data opportunities. Its Data Engine solution provides an intermediary layer between Apache Cassandra* clients and database nodes, bringing storage closer to the network through intelligent caching and accelerating transactional and AI applications. In this interview, Sundararajan discusses his and rENIAC's work, the bottlenecks that rENIAC and its customers have encountered when using NoSQL databases like Apache Cassandra, and how rENIAC data engine, Intel FPGAs, and Intel® Optane SSDs are helping customers eliminate these bottlenecks. To learn more about rENIAC, please visit https://www.reniac.com/. To learn more about Intel FPGAs, please visit http://intel.com/fpga and follow http://twitter.com/intelfpga on Twitter. Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com. Intel, the Intel logo, and Optane are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. © Intel Corporation