Susan Eggers

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Susan Jane Eggers (* 1943 ) is an American computer engineer .

Life

Eggers graduated from Connecticut College with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1965 . She worked in this field for 18 years before studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983 , where she received her PhD in computer science with Randy Katz in 1989 (dissertation: Simulation Analysis of Data Sharing in Shared Memory Multiprocessors ). Then she was Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington until retirement .

It deals with computer architecture and compiler construction . In the late 1980s, they made significant contributions to the coherence (cache coherency) of cache -Save in multiprocessors share-memory, that is the coordination of various in part from a plurality of processors distributed shared storing data in multi-processor systems. With Hank Levy , she developed Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) in the 1990s , one of the most important developments in computer architecture in recent decades. That was the basis for the hardware implementation of multithreading in the mainstream of commercially successful architectures, for example at Intel (hyperthreading), but also at Sun Microsystems and IBM . In 2010 the technology received the test of time award from the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) of the IEEE Computer Society. Eggers himself was involved in the transfer of SMT technology to commercial computers at IBM, Fujitsu, MemoryLogix and Sun Microsystems.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2003) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, 2002), of which she was Athena Lecturer in 2009. In 2006 she became a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2013 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Awards

In 1990 she received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation . In 2018 she was the first woman to receive the Eckert-Mauchly Award for computer architecture. She received it for outstanding contributions to simultaneous multithreading in the computer architecture of processors and distribution and coherence in multiprocessors (laudation).

Fonts (selection)

  • with RH Katz, DA Wood, CL Perkins, RG Sheldon: Implementing a cache consistency protocol , ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 13, 1985, pp. 276-283
  • with Mark Hill, Randy Katz u. a .: Design decisions in SPUR , Computer, Volume 19, No. 11, 1986, pp. 8-22
  • with RH Katz: A characterization of sharing in parallel programs and its application to coherency protocol evaluation , ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 16, 1988, pp. 373-382
  • with BN Bershad u. a .: SPIN: An extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services , Proceedings of the 6th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Matching operating systems to application needs, ACM 1994, pp. 68-71
  • with Dean M. Tullsen, Henry M. Levy: Simultaneous multithreading: Maximizing on-chip parallelism , 22nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 1995, pp. 392-403
  • with BN Bershad u. a .: Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system , ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 29, 1995, pp. 267-283
  • with DM Tullsen, JS Emer, HM Levy, JL Lo, RL Stamm: Exploiting choice: Instruction fetch and issue on an implementable simultaneous multithreading processor , ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 24, Issue 2, 1996, pp. 191-202
  • with J. foreigner, BN Bershad u. a .: Fast, effective dynamic compilation , ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 31, No. 5, 1996, pp. 149-159
  • with JS Emer, HM Levy, JL Lo, RL Stamm, DM Tullsen: Simultaneous multithreading: A platform for next-generation processors , IEEE micro, Volume 17, 1997, pp. 12-19
  • with JL Lo, LA Barroso, K. Gharachorloo, SS Parekh: An analysis of database workload performance on simultaneous multithreaded processors , ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, Volume 26, 1998, pp. 39-50

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susan Eggers in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ As of 2018 and according to the recognition at the Eckert Mauchly Prize for Eggers by the IEEE Computer Society.
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter E. (PDF; 477 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed June 10, 2018 .
  4. ^ Susan Eggers First Woman to Receive Highly Prestigious Computer Architecture Award , PR Newswire, June 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Eggers, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggers, Susan Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1943