Monty Denneau
Monty Montague Denneau (born before 1978) is an American computer architect. He works on supercomputers at IBM .
Life
Denneau received his PhD in mathematics (on decidability in Hilbert spaces ) in 1978 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In the early 1980s at IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center , where he has been working since 1978, he developed a special parallel computer for simulating digital computer circuits, the Yorktown Simulation Engine. Denneau is still at the Watson Research Center (2013). He is the main architect of the Cyclops64 project (formerly BlueGene / C), a parallel computer with a performance in the petaflop range.
Cyclops is said to be about 1000 times faster than Deep Blue and to consist of hundreds of processors whose 64-bit RISC instruction set has been completely rewritten. It is water cooled. One innovation is that many computing units are integrated on one chip, with the operating system automatically switching off defective units. Since the entire chip does not always have to be sorted out in the event of defects, the number of rejects has been significantly reduced. The Cyclops64 chip contains 80 processors that are clocked at 500 MHz and should achieve 80 gigaflop each. 13824 such Cyclops64 chips are interconnected in the planned parallel computer.
In 2002, Denneau received the Seymour Cray Award for ongoing inventive contributions to the design and implementation of the cutting edge of high performance computing that resulted in widely adopted industrial products . In 2013 he became an IBM Fellow .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Literally in the laudation of the Cray Award: For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to widely used industrial products
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Denneau, Monty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Denneau, Monty Montague (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1978 |