William Camp (computer scientist)
William Camp (born June 5, 1944 in Plattsburgh ) is an American computer engineer.
Camp graduated from Manhattan College as a National Merit Scholar and received a PhD in theoretical and computational physics from Cornell University . After graduating from 1970, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories , where he set up the Massively Parallel Computing Research Lab (MPCRL) from 1988. Camp developed techniques for massive parallel computers (MPP) there. Among other things, this was awarded the first Gordon Bell Prize. Eventually this culminated in the Red Storm project , developed and patented by Camp with Jim Tomkins in 2000. The ideas were implemented in cooperation with the supercomputer manufacturer Cray , which led to the Cray T3D, T3E and Cray XT3 (and the other computers in the XT series from Cray). Camp himself was on the T3E design team at Cray while on leave from Sandia Lab. He then returned to Sandia Lab, where he headed the state supercomputer initiative ASCI (Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative), which served the simulation for the maintenance of the US nuclear arsenal, and research and development in computer science and mathematics (director of computers, Information and mathematics until 2006).
At Sandia, he led the development of the first MPP with over 1000 processor units, the first MPP to lead the Top500 (Intel Paragon, as it was in collaboration with Intel ), the first tera-scale computer ( ASCI Red , 1996) and the first tera-scale Cluster based on a supercomputing environment (CPlant). With CPlant he was a pioneer for large, scalable Linux clusters as supercomputers. In 2006 he became chief architect for supercomputers at Intel, where he managed the development of exascale computers, i.e. those with performance in the exa-FLOP area. He was involved in the establishment of joint Intel laboratories with European partners for the exascale area. In 2011 he retired from Intel. At the end of the 2010s he advised on post-exascale calculators.
In 2016 he received the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award for his visionary leadership role in the Red Storm Project and his decades-long leadership role in the HPC community (laudation).
From 1964 to 1971 he was married to Barbara LaVigne, with whom he has a daughter. In 1973 he married Terry Sue (NaVeaux) Camp, with whom he has two daughters. He lives in Cedar Crest, New Mexico and has a summer home in Lake Champlain, Peru, New York.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE . He holds patents on major supercomputer designs.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Camp, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plattsburgh (City, New York) |