Cray Inc. announced that Steve Scott has rejoined the company as senior vice president and chief technology officer. With more than two decades of supercomputing experience at Cray, NVIDIA and Google, Scott returns to the company to help define the technology that will drive the company's next generation of supercomputing and big data solutions. Prior to rejoining the company, Scott served as a principal engineer at Google in the Google Platforms group and was previously the senior vice president and chief technology officer for the Tesla business unit at NVIDIA.

Scott began his career at Cray in 1992, and rose to the position of senior vice president and chief technology officer. Scott was instrumental in the design of several the company supercomputing systems, including the Cray X1 scalable vector supercomputer and the Cray Cascade supercomputing system, which became the Cray XC series of high-end supercomputers.