Dr. Dennis Abts - Chief Architect - Groq

Title: From Supercomputers to Superchips: Deep Learning One PataOp at a Time

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Keywords: tensor streaming architecture, inference, software defined hardware, compiler technology

Bio: Dennis is the Chief Architect at Groq, and is an expert in scalable vector architectures for high performance computing. Previously at Google, he worked on datacenter network topologies for energy-proportional networking and Cray where he was a Sr. Principal Architect on several Top500 massively-parallel supercomputers. Dennis has published over 20 technical papers in areas of memory systems, interconnection networks, and fault-tolerant systems. He holds over two dozen patents spanning 20+ years of experience at Cray and Google. Dennis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM Computer Society.