David J. Kuck, a graduate of the

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, was a professor in the Computer Science Department the

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from 1965 to 1993. He is the father of Olympic silver medalist

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. While at the

he developed the Parafrase compiler system (1977), which was the first testbed for the development of

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and related program transformations. In his role as Director (1986–93) of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (CSRD-UIUC), Kuck led the construction of the

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project, a hierarchical shared-memory 32-processor

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supercomputer completed in 1988 at the University of Illinois.UIUC Computer Science Department'
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He founded Kuck and Associates (KAI) in 1979 to build a line of industry-standard optimizing compilers especially focused upon exploiting parallelism. After CSRD, Kuck transferred his full attentions to KAI and its clients at various US National Laboratories. KAI was acquired by Intel in March 2000, where Kuck currently serves as an

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, Software and Services Group (SSG), Developer Products Division (DPD). Kuck was the sole software person on the

ILLIAC IV The ILLIAC IV was the first massively parallel computer. The system was originally designed to have 256 64-bit floating point units (FPUs) and four central processing units (CPUs) able to process 1 billion operations per second. Due to budget co ...

project in contrast to all the other hardware-oriented members. Kuck is responsible not only for developing many of the initial ideas of how to restructure computer source code for parallelism but also trained many of that field's major players around the world.

Honors

Kuck is a fellow of the

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, the

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(ACM), and the

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. He was also elected a member of the

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in 1991 for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of parallelism in scientific computation. He has won the Eckert-Mauchly Award from ACM/IEEE and the

IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award In 1989, the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium established the Charles Babbage Award to be given each year to a conference participant in recognition of exceptional contributions to the field. In almost all cases, the aw ...

. Kuck is a major contributor in creating

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, a cross-platform, directive-based parallel programming approach which is especially friendly in multi-core environment. In 2010 Kuck was selected to receive the

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, given by ACM and the

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for Innovations in High-Performance Computing.Kuck is a B.S. graduate of the

References

External links

David Kuck's Bio at Intel
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