Dr. Bandwidth goes to AMD

STREAM: Sustainable Memory Bandwidth in High Performance Computersの開発者である
McCalpin博士が IBMから AMDに移りました：
"Senior power scientist goes to AMD", 18 January 2006
　http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29067
　"...Dr. John McCalpin, creator of the Stream benchmark had moved from IBM to AMD.
　 He was working on Power performance analysis, but now seems to be working on
　 'development of AMD's accelerator strategy',..."
　John D. McCalpin, Ph.D., "Dr. Bandwidth"
　　http://home.austin.rr.com/mccalpin/
　　"I live in Round Rock TX, and work for AMD in Austin TX, where am the technical
　　lead for the development of AMD's accelerator strategy."
　McCalpin博士は IBM POWER microprocessor development teamに所属していました(1999～)：
　　"Characterization of simultaneous multithreading (SMT) efficiency in POWER5",
　　　H. M. Mathis, A. E. Mericas, J. D. McCalpin, R. J. Eickemeyer, and S. R. Kunkel,
　　　POWER5 and Packaging, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 49, Number 4/5, 2005.
　　　　http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/494/tocpdf.html
※[06/01/23]
　"Meet the experts: John McCalpin", 23 Nov 2004
　　http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-expert1.html
　　"This question and answer article features IBM Senior Technical Staff Member John McCalpin
　　 on his work on the POWER5 and in high performance computing; on the Hypervisor and
　　 the size of POWER5 chips; on 128-bit computing -- and even on why he became a computer
　　 scientist instead of an entomologist."


STREAM: Sustainable Memory Bandwidth in High Performance Computers
　http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/


ご本人の書き込み：
"Topic: McCalpin has moved to AMD", 1/19/06
　http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&PostNum=3997&Thread=6&entryID=61578&roomID=11
　"I am working with AMD's new CTO (Phil Hester) to decide how to discuss AMD's accelerator
　 strategy externally. Not surprisingly, most of what I do is confidential work relating to future
　 AMD processors and confidential interactions with potential third-party suppliers of
　 accelerator hardware & software."
　 .....
　"One third party that I can mention is Cray. On November 14, 2005, Cray and AMD
　 announced that AMD processors will be used as the microprocessors of Cray's future
　 systems,..."

AMDと Cray Inc.の提携についてのプレスリリース：
"Cray To Base Next-Generation Supercomputers On AMD Opteron™ Processor Platform", November 14, 2005
　http://www.amd.com/us-en/Weblets/0,,7832_8366_5730~102426,00.html
　"Cray will continue to use AMD Opteron™ processors for the microprocessor-based
　 supercomputer products Cray develops during this period. In addition, the two firms
　 will actively collaborate on Cray's mid-2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the federal
　 government's DARPA HPCS (High Productivity Computing Systems) program."
"Cray to Base Next-Generation Supercomputers on AMD Opteron(TM) Processor Platform;
　Firms Will Collaborate On Cray's 2006 DARPA HPCS Phase 3 Proposal", Nov. 14, 2005
　http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=782123&highlight=


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　Cray XT3 (ASCI Red Storm) とストレージ [06/01/10], 2006-01-10
　Horus：AMD Opteron大規模サーバ用 (max 32CPU) チップ, 2006-01-16
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