Tadashi Watanabe
Tadashi Watanabe ( Japanese 渡 辺 貞 , Watanabe Tadashi ; * October 1944 ) is a Japanese computer architect and director of the Next Generation Supercomputer Research Center at RIKEN (2012).
Watanabe received his doctorate in computer science from Tōhoku University and was at NEC from 1968 to 2005 , where he made it to Vice President. He was the main architect of the NEC SX-2 supercomputer, which came on the market in 1985 and was the first supercomputer from NEC and at that time the fastest computer in the world (he was the first to break the 1 Gflop mark), and the Earth Simulator based on the SX architecture , which was the fastest computer in the world from 2002 to 2004. The SX was designed from scratch by Watanabe, with a scalable RISC architecture and multiple parallel vector pipelines.
In 2006 he received the Seymour Cray Award and in 1998 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award . In 2005 he became an IEEE Fellow . He served on the Council of the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology in Japan (RIST) and was Deputy Director of the Japan Society of Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES).
Web links
- Brief biography at RIKEN
- NEC press release on the Cray Award
- Biography on the occasion of the Cray Award
Individual evidence
- ↑ 渡 辺 貞 プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト リ ー ダ ー が シ ー モ ア ・ ク レ イ 賞 を 受 賞 - 日本人 初 の 受 賞 - . RIKEN, November 9, 2006, accessed March 27, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watanabe, Tadashi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 渡 辺 貞 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese computer architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1944 |