by Michael Feldman, HPCWire
AMD looks like it’s getting set to jump back into the GPU computing arena with chips a-blazin. A couple of weeks ago, the company signed up HPC industry-heavyweight John Gustafson as the chief architect for the Graphics Business Unit, what used to known as ATI. Gustafson will essentially fill the CTO role there, driving the technology roadmap and direction for the chipmaker’s discrete GPU business — the Radeon and FirePro lines.

Gustafson is best known for Gustafson’s Law, a partial refute of Amdahl’s Law that redefined conventional wisdom on parallel computing in the modern age. In his most recent position at Intel, he drove research on next-generation computing and storage technologies. Prior to that, he served as the chief exec at Massively Parallel Technologies, a role he took on after leaving his CTO gig at ClearSpeed Technology.

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