Why Us?
Why SixtyBit?
SixtyBit Consulting was established to assist companies trying to efficiently re-size or re-focus their operations based on new technologies, emerging threats, or to address complex problems. The principals of SixtyBit have worked with companies like Napster, Grand Central Communications (now known as Google Voice), TellMe Networks, TrustedID (now part of Equifax), and others. We understand the unique pressures and constraints to which companies are subject, and we can assist you in mapping and realizing the path that gets where you want to be.
But technology alone won’t get a business to the goals they may want to achieve. It has to be tempered with a plan to operate that technology effectively and to focus it on achieving the practical near- and long-term objectives of the organization. There has to be a plan and there has to be discipline.
Achieving Success
The name SixtyBit is actually an homage to a man who exemplifies the qualities of “technical excellence, tempered by practicality”-- Seymour Cray. Cray is considered to be the Father of Supercomputing and was a driving force behind Control Data Corporation (CDC), of which he was co-founder, and later, founder of Cray Research. CDC and Cray machines dominated the supercomputer industry in the latter part of the 20th Century. What distinguished Cray’s machines was the efficiency and effectiveness of the hardware and software design, coupled with a healthy sense of pragmatism. Several of his supercomputer designs featured a six-bit byte and ten-byte word architecture – hence sixty bits. His designs were competing with the 32- and 36-bit mainframes of the time and featured RISC architecture—like the ARM chips of today. As a general-purpose computer, they were competitive. As a scientific or engineering computer, they were unsurpassed.
But Cray was a pragmatist. As 8-bit oriented processors and integrated circuitry became more available and component prices plummeted, Cray recognized that it would me more economical to build machines based on massively-parallel architecture using those chips—and Cray Research was born.
