William J. Dally

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William J. Dally (* 1960 ) is an American computer designer. He is a professor at Stanford University .

Dally studied electrical engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree, earned a master's degree from Stanford and received his PhD in 1986 from Caltech under Charles L. Seitz ( A VLSI Architecture for Concurrent Data Structures ). He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before he became a professor at Stanford in 1997 and was temporarily head of the computer science faculty there from 2005.

He deals with VLSI design for parallel computers and digital signal processors . He holds over 70 patents (2011). At Caltech he designed the MOSSIM Simulation Engine and the Torus Routing Chip (with pioneering work in wormhole routing and virtual channel flow control). At MIT, he and his group started building the J-Machine in 1988 , a parallel computer whose design was based on Dally's dissertation. It was based on the idea that if you have fast networks (they use message passing ) between processors, it would be cheaper to use lots of simple processors instead of more expensive memory (the J stands for jellybean, a cheap candy) . Three J-machines were built, each with 1024 processor nodes (at MIT, Argonne National Laboratory , Caltech). The J-Machine followed in 1998 in Stanford, where it had since gone, the M-Machine.

He was also involved in the design of the 32-bit BELLMAC32 microprocessor at Bell Laboratories and designed the MARS Hardware Accelerator .

Dally worked with various computer companies, such as Cray Research since 1989 and Velio Communications, whose Chief Technology Officer he was in 1999 until it was acquired by LSI Logic in 2003 . In 2004 he was the founder of Stream Processors Inc. in Sunnyvale , which existed until 2009 and designed digital signal processors. In 2009 he became a senior scientist at Nvidia .

In 2004 he received the Seymour Cray Award , in 2010 the Eckert-Mauchly Award and in 2000 the Maurice Wilkes Award from the ACM. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Fonts

  • with John W. Poulton Digital Systems Engineering , Cambridge University Press 1998
  • with Curtis Harting Digital Design, a systems approach , Cambridge University Press 2012
  • with Brian Towles Principles and Practice of Interconnection Networks , Morgan Kaufman 2004
  • A VLSI Architecture for concurrent data structures, Kluwer 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Appointment as CTO at Nvidia
personal data
SURNAME Dally, William J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960