Charles L. Seitz
Charles Lewis Chuck Seitz is an American computer designer.
Seitz studied electrical engineering (computer science) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with his doctorate in 1971 with Donald Troxel (Graph Representations for Logical Machines) While still a student, he gave courses at MIT on networks and automaton theory (for which he received the Goodwin Medal from MIT ), was significantly involved in the development of the laboratory course on digital systems and designed logic circuits for image processing, some with parallel computer components. In his dissertation he developed the mathematical foundations of asynchronous logic, as it was required in the design of parallel computer circuits. After graduation, he went to the University of Utah to study with Ivan Sutherland and David Evans (and their company Evans & Sunderland) and was involved in the development of digital image processing processors with pipeline architecture. He then went to Burroughs in California and from 1977 he was a professor at Caltech .
At Caltech, he developed new methods of VLSI design of chips for competitive computers, which he implemented with his students. From 1981 he developed the Caltech Cosmic Cube parallel computer with Geoffrey C. Fox . It had 64 Intel 8086/87 processors and was used for calculations in quantum chromodynamics on the grid. The new hardware and software techniques developed later found their way into industry, for example some of his students from the 1987 project founded the Parasoft company, and the technology found its way into the Intel Paragon, the ASCI Red supercomputer from Sandia National Laboratories and the Cray T3D and Cray T3E. In 1994 he co-founded Myricom, which developed the fast (gigabit per second) packet switching network system Myrinet, which was used in many PC clusters. In 2010, he resigned as Chief Executive Officer and President of Myricom to focus more on research and writing.
In 1992 he was accepted into the National Academy of Engineering . In 2011 he received the Seymour Cray Award .
William J. Dally is one of his PhD students .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Seitz, Charles L. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seitz, Charles Lewis Chuck |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |