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Almaden Institute
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The Future of Systems Research
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Abstract:
There needs to be a new shift in focus for systems research. Performance—long
the centerpiece—needs to share the spotlight with availability, maintainability,
and other qualities.
John Hennessy Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook, 1977. Professor Hennessy
initiated the MIPS project at Stanford in 1981. MIPS is a high-performance
Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), built in VLSI. MIPS was
one of the first three experimental RISC architectures. In addition
to his role in the basic research, Hennessy played a key role
in transferring this technology to industry. During a sabbatical
leave from Stanford in 1984–85, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems
(now called MIPS Technologies Inc.),
which specializes in the production of chips based on these concepts.
He also led the Stanford DASH (Distributed Architecture for Shared
Memory) multiprocessor project. DASH was the first scalable shared
memory multiprocessor with hardware-supported cache coherence.
Most recently, he has been involved in FLASH
(FLexible Architecture for Shared Memory), which is designed to
support different communication and coherency approaches in large-scale
shared-memory multiprocessors. Hennessy is also the coauthor of
two widely used textbooks in computer architecture.
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