Ken Batcher

Ken Batcher is one of the Computer Architect s at Goodyear Aerospace (now Lockheed Martin ) in Akron, Ohio, USA. Among the designs he worked on were the:

Massively Parallel Processor (16,384 custom bit-serial processors {8 to a chip} organized in a SIMD 128 x 128 processor array with additional CPU rows for Fault-tolerance } which was located at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center at the Smithsonian . This unit predates Danny Hillis ' Thinking Machines Corp.'s Connection Machine

The Goodyear STARAN associative processor arrays, a version of which (called ASPRO) was found in the US Navy E2-C Hawkeye AWACS planes.

Batcher is best known for his half-serious, half-humorous definition that ''"A Supercomputer is a device for turning compute-bound problems into I/O-bound problems."''

	CATEGORIES ABOUT KEN BATCHER

	american designers

	computer pioneers

	university of illinois at urbana-champaign alumni

	people from akron, ohio

	APPAREL
	BABY
	BEAUTY
	BOOKS
	CAR TOYS
	CELL PHONES
	DVD'S
	ELECTRONICS
	GOURMET FOOD
	GROCERIES
	HEALTH & PERSONAL
	HOME & GARDEN
	JEWELRY
	MUSIC
	MUSIC INSTRUMENTS
	OFFICE PRODUCTS
	SOFTWARE
	SPORTING GOODS
	TOOLS & HARDWARE
	TOYS
	VIDEO GAMES
	SHOPPING HOME

	MORE SHOPPING...

Information About

Ken Batcher