NVIDIA has announced that Stanford University’s Computer Science Chairman Bill Dally will be stepping in as their new VP of Research and Chief Scientist.
Dally has been tapped by NVIDIA for his pioneering efforts in the realm of stream computing and general purpose parallel processing. Regarding the recent announcement, NVIDIA president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was congratulatory of the incoming Dally and the outgoing David Kirk.
“I am thrilled to welcome Bill to NVIDIA at such a pivotal time for our company,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO, NVIDIA. “His pioneering work in stream processors at Stanford greatly influenced the work we are doing at NVIDIA today. As one of the world’s founding visionaries in parallel computing, he shares our passion for the GPU’s evolution into a general purpose parallel processor and how it is increasingly becoming the soul of the new PC. His reputation as an innovator in our industry is unrivaled. It is truly an honor to have a legend like Bill in our company.”
“I would also like to congratulate David Kirk for the enormous impact he has had at NVIDIA. David has worn many hats over the years – from product architecture to chief evangelist. His technical and strategic insight has helped us enable an entire new world of visual computing. We will all continue to benefit from his valuable contributions.”
It is immediately evident that NVIDIA is drawing on Dally to enhance their already impressive GPGPU/CUDA portfolio. With on-GPU processing becoming an increasingly popular spectacle, this is certainly a strong win for the boys in green.
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