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In 2017 Olukotun and Chris RĂ© founded SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems is developing a next-generation computing platform to power machine learning and data analytics. Olukotun now leads the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, which focuses on making heterogeneous parallel computing easy to use,
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Olukotun joined Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering in 1991. While at Stanford, Olukotun became the leader of the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor (CMP) research project which allowed for the development of multiprocessors with support for
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In 2008, Olukotun returned to Stanford, and founded the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at Stanford after gathering US$ 6 million in funding from several computer-industry corporations. His recent work focuses on
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Olukotun directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas. He is also a member of the Data Analytics for What's Next (DAWN) Lab.
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Olukotun leads the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor (CMP) research project, revolutionizing computing by bringing multi-core technology to consumers and high-end computing systems.
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In the mid-1990s, Olukotun and his co-authors argued that multi-core computer processors were likely to make better use of hardware than existing
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Olukotun has used several words from his Yoruba heritage in his research. Afara, the name of the company he founded, means "bridge" in the
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in 2002. The Afara multicore processor Niagara, developed by Olukotun was acquired by Sun. Niagara derived processors currently power all
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and he is a member of the Data Analytics for What’s Next (DAWN) Lab, which is developing infrastructure for usable machine learning.
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Olukotun, Kunle; Nayfeh, Basem A.; Hammond, Lance; Wilson, Ken; Chang, Kunyung (1996), "The case for a single-chip multiprocessor",
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that can allow algorithms to be easily adapted to multiple different types of parallel hardware including multi-core systems,
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in 2006 for his "contributions to multiprocessors on a chip and multi threaded processor design". He became a Fellow of the
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Chip Multiprocessor Architecture: Techniques to Improve Throughput and Latency, Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
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Proc. 7th ACM Int. Conf. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VII)
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Olukotun holds 12 U.S. patents. He has published more than 150 scientific papers and wrote two textbooks.
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is a British-born Nigerian computer scientist who is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of the
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Kongetira, P.; Aingaran, K.; Olukotun, K. (2005), "Niagara: a 32-way multithreaded Sparc processor",
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and the director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab. Olukotun is known as the “father of the
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Technology-Organization Trade-offs in the Architecture of a High Performance Processor
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of iron and steel, a play on words since large computers are frequently called
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Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
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The dates of his PhD vary by source. His personal web site and
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Olukotun is also a member of the board of advisors of UDC, a
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systems, domain specific languages and high-level compilers.
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Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
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programming models. Olukotun's research interests include
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2006 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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in the ACM digital library, the year is stated as 1992.
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UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization
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University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
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London
University of Michigan
Calvin College
computer architecture
domain specific languages
Harry H. Goode Award
Member of the National Academy Engineering
Eckert–Mauchly Award
computer architecture
Stanford University
Thesis
Technology-Organization Trade-offs in the Architecture of a High Performance Processor
Doctoral advisor
Trevor Mudge
Stanford School of Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Computer Science
Stanford University
multi-core processor
multi-threaded
CPUs
GPUs
transactional memory
domain-specific languages
computer architecture
parallel programming
scalable parallel
Calvin College
Grand Rapids

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