Ravi Arimilli

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Ravi Arimilli (* 1963 in India ) is an Indian -American computer architect and inventor.

Life

Arimilli came to the United States from Andhra Pradesh with his family in 1969 and grew up in Baton Rouge , where his father worked as a geologist. He studied electrical engineering at Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in 1985. He has been with IBM since 1985 (in their development center in Austin) and has been an IBM Fellow since 2001 .

At the beginning of his time at IBM he was part of the team that developed the first RISC processor for the IBM PC. He is the main architect of the memory architecture of the p690 server (code name Regatta, with a Power 4 processor) and the main architect of the Power 5 processor and its successor. Arimilli worked on the RS / 6000 Unix workstations and servers and their successors, the PSeries . In the early 2000s he was considered a leading expert at IBM for symmetrical multiprocessor systems , cache / memory hierarchies and system bus protocols.

Arimilli was also involved in the Blue Pacific supercomputer for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . He holds hundreds of patents for IBM (78 in 2002 alone). Since 1998 he has regularly won IBM's Inventor of the Year Award .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chidanand Rajghatta: Indian techie is US 'patent raja . Times of India, January 19, 2004 (portrait).
  2. ↑ Stephen Shankland: IBM Plots new Unix server chips . Cnet News, April 25, 2002
  3. ↑ Margaret Quan: Prolific EE decorates IBM's patent crown . EETimes, January 17, 2003 (portrait).
personal data
SURNAME Arimilli, Ravi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American computer architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH India