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Master Inventor and Power™ Architect
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Dr. Michael Gschwind is an IBM Master Inventor, an IBM Power architect and a logic design lead for a future IBM System. He was one of the initiators and a leading contributor to the Cell Broadband Engine system architecture definition as well as a lead architect of the Synergistic Processor architecture. During the definition of the Synergistic Processor architecture, Michael also developed the first Cell Broadband Engine compiler.
Michael joined the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, in 1997. He has held leadership positions in several seminal projects, including the DAISY dynamic compilation project where he was a lead architect for the BOA high-frequency statically scheduled architecture, and was a leading contributor to the development of pioneering dynamic compilation techniques. Michael was also a leading contributor to seminal work on power/performance trade-offs in microprocessor designs which formalized the futility of the frequency-centric uniprocessor design approach used in the industry at the time, an insight that had already guided the design of the Cell Broadband Engine.
Michael’s contributions to IBM systems and technology have been recognized with several corporate awards. In addition to his contributions to the design and implementation of IBM systems, he is the author of over 75 papers, covering hardware/software co-design, compiler technology, multimedia processing, and high-performance computer architecture, and has received key patents for his inventions in these areas.
In addition to his corporate contributions, Michael has been a faculty member at Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, and a visiting faculty member at Princeton University where he has taught classes on advanced computer architecture. Michael received PhD and MS degrees in computer science from Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.
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Last updated 4 Dec 2006