James Laudon Author

Kunle Olukotun is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Olukotun led the Stanford Hydra project which developed the first chip multiprocessor (multicore chip) with support for thread-level speculation. Using insights gained from the Hydra project, Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to demonstrate the benefits of chip multiprocessor technology for high-throughput, low power server systems. Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, was acquired by Sun Microsystems. The Niagara based Sun Fire CoolThreads servers have become one of Sun’s fastest ramping products ever. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems. Currently, Olukotun directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas. Olukotun is a Fellow of the ACM. Olukotun received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan. James Laudon is a Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems. His areas of expertise include multithreading, multiprocessors, and performance modelling. He is currently focused on the architecture of future generations in the UltraSPARC T1 chip multiprocessor line. James joined Sun in July of 2002 through the acquisition of Afara Websystems.