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AMD lands high-performance computing guru
Dylan McGrath
8/28/2012 6:41 PM EDT
Recruiting drive continues
Luring Gustafson from Intel continues a string of high-profile talent recruiting by AMD. In recent weeks, the company announced that it recruited longtime Apple designer Jim Keller to serve as corporate vice president and chief architect for microprocessor cores. The company also announced earlier this summer that it appointed Suresh Gopalakrishnan, former vice president of engineering at Extreme Networks, to the position of vice president and general manager of its server business.
Late last year AMD appointed former IBM and Apple designer Mark Papermaster to the role of chief technology officer and recruited former Freescale Semiconductor and IBM executive Lisa Su to be the general manager of its global business units.
In 1988, Gustafson wrote Reevaluating Amdahl's Law to address limitations of Amdahl’s Law, which models the maximum potential performance improvement from parallel processing. Gustafson proved that processors working in parallel can solve larger problems, marking a change in how the industry viewed parallel processing. Today, Gustafson’s Law is widely accepted among academia as the standard for parallel processing education.
In a statement, Gustafson said he looked forward to working with his teams to expand the AMD graphics technology roadmap.
"The next decade will serve as a watershed era for GPUs in graphics rendering power and compute capabilities, creating the opportunity for multi-teraFLOPS APUs," Gustafson said. "In terms of raw performance, the evolution of discrete graphics has far exceeded that of the CPU, and the programmable characteristics of today’s GPUs have thrown open a door that could very well see it rival the CPU as the most critical element of computer performance in the near future."
Gustafson holds both a master’s and a doctorate degree in applied mathematics from Iowa State University, and a bachelor’s degree in the same from the California Institute of Technology. He also holds numerous patents and has authored an array of technical publications.
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Luring Gustafson from Intel continues a string of high-profile talent recruiting by AMD. In recent weeks, the company announced that it recruited longtime Apple designer Jim Keller to serve as corporate vice president and chief architect for microprocessor cores. The company also announced earlier this summer that it appointed Suresh Gopalakrishnan, former vice president of engineering at Extreme Networks, to the position of vice president and general manager of its server business.
Late last year AMD appointed former IBM and Apple designer Mark Papermaster to the role of chief technology officer and recruited former Freescale Semiconductor and IBM executive Lisa Su to be the general manager of its global business units.
In 1988, Gustafson wrote Reevaluating Amdahl's Law to address limitations of Amdahl’s Law, which models the maximum potential performance improvement from parallel processing. Gustafson proved that processors working in parallel can solve larger problems, marking a change in how the industry viewed parallel processing. Today, Gustafson’s Law is widely accepted among academia as the standard for parallel processing education.
In a statement, Gustafson said he looked forward to working with his teams to expand the AMD graphics technology roadmap.
"The next decade will serve as a watershed era for GPUs in graphics rendering power and compute capabilities, creating the opportunity for multi-teraFLOPS APUs," Gustafson said. "In terms of raw performance, the evolution of discrete graphics has far exceeded that of the CPU, and the programmable characteristics of today’s GPUs have thrown open a door that could very well see it rival the CPU as the most critical element of computer performance in the near future."
Gustafson holds both a master’s and a doctorate degree in applied mathematics from Iowa State University, and a bachelor’s degree in the same from the California Institute of Technology. He also holds numerous patents and has authored an array of technical publications.
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wilber_xbox
8/29/2012 2:07 PM EDT
Hope that this high profile talent recruit help AMD in cutting the losses that it incurred and pave the path for growth and leadership in semiconductor industry.
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docdivakar
8/29/2012 4:39 PM EDT
Great for AMD! I hope some good products soon follow from Gustaffson's efforts! It remains to be seen what he proposes in the CPU architecture -the one without GPU's that Intel is pushing with Xeon Phi?
@Dylan: looks like you went to HotChips this year!!
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