was a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center

Texas Advanced Computing Center

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 at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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 when he famously hand-optimized assembly

Assembly language

An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...

 routines for supercomputing

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 and PC

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 platforms that outperform the best compiler

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 generated code. Several of the fastest supercomputers in the world still use his implementation of the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

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 (BLAS) known as “Goto BLAS”. He joined Microsoft's Technical Computing Group in 2010.

External links

• Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun: A Human Computer Keeps ..., an article in the New York Times about Kazushige Goto.
• The Human Code, an article about his work.
• SurviveGotoBLAS2 is a continuation of Kazushige's work by Ei-ji Nakama.
• OpenBLAS is another attempt to keep Goto BLAS alive on GitHub with emphasis on Loongson processors.