Anant Agarwal
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Anant Agarwal is a computer architecture
researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. He has also founded the Tilera
corporation.
Agarwal received the 2001 Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture.
In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
. In 2011 he was appointed Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Anant Agarwal is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the Director of CSAIL. He leads the Carbon group which focuses on research involving operating systems and architectures for manycores and clouds. He is also a founder and CTO of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He led the development of Raw - an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle - an early multithreaded microprocessor, and Alewife - a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works, which took the VirtualWires technology to market. He is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."
Computer architecture
In computer science and engineering, computer architecture is the practical art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals and the formal modelling of those systems....
researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
. He has also founded the Tilera
Tilera
Tilera Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design. The company is currently shipping multiple processors, including the TILE64, TILEPro64, and the TILEPro36, TILE-Gx36, TILE-Gx16 and TILE-Gx9...
corporation.
Agarwal received the 2001 Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture.
In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
. In 2011 he was appointed Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
See also
- Alewife (multiprocessor)Alewife (multiprocessor)Alewife was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the early 1990s by a group led by Anant Agarwal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, a project led by Agarwal at MIT that was a predecessor to the Beowulf cluster. - TileraTileraTilera Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design. The company is currently shipping multiple processors, including the TILE64, TILEPro64, and the TILEPro36, TILE-Gx36, TILE-Gx16 and TILE-Gx9...
Anant Agarwal is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the Director of CSAIL. He leads the Carbon group which focuses on research involving operating systems and architectures for manycores and clouds. He is also a founder and CTO of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He led the development of Raw - an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle - an early multithreaded microprocessor, and Alewife - a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works, which took the VirtualWires technology to market. He is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."