Peter Hofstee | |
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 Peter Hofstee (October 2014) | |
| Born | 1962 Groningen, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | University of Groningen Caltech |
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| Thesis | Synchronizing processes (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut K. Mani Chandy |
Harm Peter Hofstee (born 1962) is a Dutch physicist and computer scientist who currently is a distinguished research staff member atIBM Austin, USA, and a part-time professor in Big Data Systems atDelft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Hofstee is best known for his contributions toHeterogeneous computing as the chief architect of the Synergistic Processor Elements in theCell Broadband Engine processor used in the SonyPlayStation 3,[1][2] and thefirst supercomputer to reach sustained Petaflop operation. After returning to IBM research in 2011 he has focused on optimizing the system roadmap forbig data, analytics, and cloud, including the use of accelerated compute. His early research work on coherently attached reconfigurable acceleration onPOWER7 paved the way for the newCoherent Accelerator Processor Interface onPOWER8 throughPOWER10.[3] Hofstee is an IBM Master Inventor with more than 100 issued patents.[4]
Hofstee was born inGroningen and obtained his master's degree intheoretical physics of theUniversity of Groningen in 1988. He continued to study at theCalifornia Institute of Technology where he wrote a master's thesisConstructing Some Distributed Programs in 1991[5] and obtained a Ph.D. with a thesis titledSynchronizing Processes in 1995.[6] He joined Caltech as a lecturer for two years and moved to IBM in theAustin, Texas Research Laboratory, where he had staff member, senior technical staff member and distinguished engineer positions.
Since 2011, Peter is leading the Big Data system design work at IBM. In March 2016, Peter was appointed as professor to the chair of Big Data Computer Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology.
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