Partha Kundu Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Office of the CTO at Juniper Networks partha.kundu@acm.org
Summary Partha Kundu is currently working on next generation data center architectures. Previously, Partha was a senior architect within Intel Labs in California working on Tera-Scale technologies related to many core CPUs. He joined Intel in 1990 and was a designer of the first super-scalar x86 processor, the Pentium chip. Partha contributed to the development of the Intel Itanium instruction-set architecture (ISA) in 1993-94 and thereafter served as an architect and design manager of the first Itanium based machine (1994 96). He was a Principal Architect of the DEC/Alpha EV8 microprocessor (1996-2001), and developed the memory system architecture. He is recognized as one of the earliest contributors to the field of on-chip interconnects in multi-core CPUs, giving an invited talk at the first 2006 NSF workshop on chip interconnects at Stanford University. Partha served as General Chair of the 3rd IEEE/ACM Networks on Chip Symposium, held at San Diego in May 2009. He was co-editor of the September/October 2007 IEEE Micro special edition on interconnects. He has participated in numerous panels, tutorials and workshops at ESWEEK, DATE, DAC and the Intel Developers Forum. Specialties: Large scale interconnection fabric design & architecture On Chip Interconnects for multi-core processors Transaction Memory & architecture support for parallel programming on multi-core CPUs Multi-Processor cache design Database and server/Parallel workload characterization Performance modeling High performance CPU and logic design
Experience Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Architect at Juniper Networks February 2010 - Present (4 years 10 months) Switch and fabric architecture for next generation data centers Architect/Researcher at Intel Corp 2002 - March 2010 (8 years) * Developed high performance, low power on-chip interconnection network for many core high performance CPUs * Developed (earliest published) hardware support to accelerate Transaction Memory (Hybrid TM) * Cache and memory bandwidth management scheme for many core CPUs Page1
* Database workload characterization Consulting Engineer, Architect at Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq 1996 - 2001 (5 years) Principal Architect (memory system) of (EV8) Alpha micro-processor Architect & Design Engineering manager at Intel Corp 1990 - 1996 (6 years) * Design manager for first Itanium microprocessor * Architect of Itanium Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) * Principal micro-architect (Bus system) of Itanium microprocessor * Design engineer on first Pentium(tm) microprocessor Hardware Engineer at AMI 1987 - 1990 (3 years) ASIC designer
Publications Curbing energy cravings in networks: A cross-sectional view across the micro-macro boundary NOCS 2011: 241-246 May 2011 Authors: Amlan Ganguly, Partha Kundu, Pradip Bose Toward Ideal On-Chip Communication Using Express Virtual Channels IEEE Micro January 2008 Authors: Amit Kumar, Li-Shiuan Peh, Partha Kundu, Niraj Jha A 4.6Tbits/s 3.6GHz single-cycle NoC router with a novel switch allocator in 65nm CMOS ICCD 2007 Authors: Amit Kumar, Partha Kundu, Arvind Pratap Singh, Li-Shiuan Peh, Niraj Jha Express virtual channels: towards the ideal interconnection fabric ISCA 2007 Authors: Amit Kumar, Li-Shiuan Peh, Partha Kundu, Niraj Jha Hybrid transactional memory PPOPP 2006 Authors: Sanjeev Kumar, Michael Chu, Christopher Hughes, Partha Kundu, Anthony Nguyen A case for shared instruction cache on chip multiprocessors running OLTP SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 2004 Authors: Partha Kundu, Murali Annavaram, Trung Diep, John Shen
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Skills & Expertise Performance Engineering Interconnect Computer Architecture Microprocessors Microarchitecture Processors SoC Logic Design ASIC Verilog RTL design VLSI Embedded Systems High Performance Computing Hardware Architecture Low-power Design Semiconductors EDA X86 Digital Signal Processors IC Software Industry Integrated Circuit Design Circuit Design System Architecture Intel Hardware FPGA SystemVerilog Debugging Parallel Programming
Patents Method and apparatus for register stack implementation using micro-operations United States Patent Application 20050102494 Inventors: Partha Kundu Method and apparatus to reduce spill and fill overhead in a processor with a register backing store United States Patent Application 20050138340 Inventors: Partha Kundu Method and system to provide user-level multithreading United States Patent 20050223199 Inventors: Partha Kundu
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Express Virtual Channels in a packet switched on-chip interconnection network United States Patent 8,223,650 Inventors: Partha Kundu, Amit Kumar Technique to improve network switch throughput United States Patent 7,773,626 Inventors: Partha Kundu, Amit Kumar Hybrid hardware and software implementation of transactional memory access United States Patent 7,856,537 Inventors: Partha Kundu, Sanjeev Kumar, Chris Hughes Scatter-gather intelligent memory architecture for unstructured streaming data on multiprocessor systems United States Patent 8,578,097 Inventors: Partha Kundu, Daehyun Kim, Chris Hughes, Yen-Kuang Chen
Education State University of New York at Stony Brook MS, Electrical Engineering, 1985 - 1987 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India Bachelor of Engineering (BE), EEE St Columba's High School, N Delhi, India
Honors and Awards General Chair of IEEE/ACM NOCS 2009 http://circuit.ucsd.edu/~nocs2009/ co-Guest Editor (with Peh (MIT)) IEEE Micro, Special Issue on Interconnects for Multi-Core Chips, September/October 2007 (Editor-in-Chief: Albonesi (Cornell)
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Partha Kundu Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Office of the CTO at Juniper Networks partha.kundu@acm.org
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