Background
Torrellas, Josep was born on March 17, 1963 in Catalonia, Spain. Son of Josep Torrellas and Rosa Jovani.
Torrellas, Josep was born on March 17, 1963 in Catalonia, Spain. Son of Josep Torrellas and Rosa Jovani.
Master of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1987; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1992.
Torrellas" research area is computer architecture, focusing on speculative multithreading, multiprocessor organization, integration of processors and memory, and architectural support for software debuggability and machine reliability. He has been involved in the Stanford DASH and the Illinois Cedar multiprocessor projects, and led the Illinois Aggressive COMA and FlexRAM Intelligent Memory projects. Torrellas has contributed to many National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Department of Energy funding initiatives.
The Aggressive COMA research project was selected as one of the "Eight Point-Design Studies" that Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, National Security Agency and National Aeronautics and Space Administration supported in the mid-nineties in a nationwide effort to accelerate the arrival of a petascale machine.
He has received as lead Principal Investigator several multimillion-dollar National Science Foundation grants, and is the lead Principal Investigator of two medium ITR grants. He has directed projects in several Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initiatives, including the recent "Polymorphous Computer Architectures" (PCA), and "High Productivity Computing Systems" (HPCS).
In the HPCS program, he is playing a leading role in helping define the architecture of International Business Machines Corporation"s PERCS multiprocessor (POWER7). He is also involved in Department of Energy"s Extreme Scale Computation initiative.
Torrellas has been at the University of Illinois since receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1992.
He also spent a sabbatical year as Research Staff Member at International Business Machines Corporation"s T.J. Watson Research Center. Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at Illinois
i-acoma Architecture Group at the University of Illinois
Illinois OpenSPARC Center.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]
Torrellas is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow and member of the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) and the Department of Energy Illinois Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR). He is currently the Chairman of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), an Associate Editor of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Rochester. He previously served as Vice-Chairman and Member of the Advisory Board of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers TCCA from 1998 to 2005.