My good friend and advisor, Dave Patterson, has been selected to lead the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center at UC Berkeley.
Patterson has been an advisor for three of the startup companies that I have founded. He’s a great guy and has a brilliant mind. He has a knack for doing research with immensely practical applications. He gets ahead of problems in Computer Science, and addresses them with the end result in mind. I just can’t say enough nice things about him. Brilliant.
The UPCRC is a joint venture between UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, funded by Intel and Microsoft. These two universities will spend the next 5 years trying to figure out how we build computing systems that can fully utilize the coming wave of multicore and manycore systems.
This is absolutely critical stuff.
Take a look at some of the coverage:
- Microsoft Press Release
- Wall Street Journal coverage
- New York Times coverage
- And the list goes on and on…
- See the UIUC UPCRC site for more information
This is a very interesting project to me, and I will be writing more about it later. Why? Well:
- I know David Patterson well, and have always admired his work
- I am a graduate of the UIUC Computer Science department
- Much of my career has been spent on HPC and supercomputer systems
- Multicore and manycore systems are coming. You can’t stop it or deny it. There’s a solid reason why Intel and Microsoft are sponsoring this research.
- I’ve been thinking about this topic of late.
You will absolutely hear more from me about this.
Tags: UPCRC, David Patterson, University of Illinois, UIUC, UC Berkeley, Intel, Microsoft, HPC,Parallel, Multicore, Manycore, Brian Berliner, brianberliner
Comments
Post a Comment