Professor Kunle Olukotun, Pioneer of Multicore Processor Design, Receives the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
Olukotun, the Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, is a pioneer in multicore processor design and the leader of the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor (CMP) research project.
- Olukotun, the Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, is a pioneer in multicore processor design and the leader of the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor (CMP) research project.
- This paper received the ASPLOS Most Influential Paper Award 15 years later.
- The Afara multi-core, multi-thread processor, called Niagara, was acquired by Sun Microsystems and now powers Oracle's SPARC-based servers.
- Olukotun is one of only two researchers who have received the Most Influential Paper Award from both ASPLOS and ISCA.