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August 10, 2008
Resume Hans de Vries
by Hans de Vries
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| 2007-Now: Graduate University textbook on Relativistic Quantum Field Fheory |
Some parts of my graduate text book (in progress) are available online: click on the logo
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Understanding
Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
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Part
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Part
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Part IV
Part V
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Relativistic foundations of light and matter Fields
Advanced treatment of the EM field
The relativistic matter wave equations
Foundations of Quantum
Electro Dynamics
Non Abelian gauge theories |
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opportunities in high performance technical data processing
require increasing levels of advanced physics in application area's as
Medical scanning and visualization, Molecular modeling , Computational
Biotechnology. Advances in FPGA numerical megacells and of the
shelf GPGPU's allow for a lower entrance level as tradition ASIC based
solutions.
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2001-2006: Third generation GPGPU stream processor:
GenTera MT3 - Imagine 3
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I had the lead architect reponsibility for the MT3.
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A third generation GPGPU processor integrating
Streaming SIMD Floating Point cores and
Open GL compatible 3D graphics pipelines with
numerous medical volume rendering extensions,
Fully integrated Video I/O, Audio I/O and legacy IO
- First silicon was achieved in 2006 -
Click on the images for some presentations:
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| 2001-2006 Derivatives of Imagine I |
Numerous companies use derivatives of the original Imagine processor
which was designed by me as the Lead Architect.
One of the latest incarnations is the XTrillion 3.0
- The XTrillion 3.0 is an 8 Core multiprocessor for Medical Applications -
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1996 - 2000 Second generation GPGPU stream processor: Arcobel Graphics / GenTera Imagine 2
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The MT2 was our second generation GPGPU processor .
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It had a full hardware implementations of Open GL compatible 3D graphics pipelines.
Advanced Floating point support was added throughout the architecture.
including fully pipelined 32 bit Floating Point Transcendental functions.
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1991-1995 Arcobel Graphics - Imagine 1:
Worlds First single chip GPGPU stream processor |
At Arcobel Graphics I was responsible
for the design of the Imagine 1 graphics and Image processor.
- It was the fastest 3D graphics processor on the market when it was released. -
It could both function as a stream processor as well as a
RISC processor executing C code
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| 1987-1990 DTN: 3D Graphics and Image processing Systollic Array board |
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At Dataflow Technology I designed the 3D graphics and
Image processing systolic array board.
The product line was purchased and marketed by Radstone
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It had a camara input which we used to capture the public during presentations
to show them live texture mapped on moving and rotating 3D graphics objects.
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Up to four boards, each with 4 PCB's could cooperate as a multiprocessing system
with a shared graphics memory of up tp 64 Megabytes which was very
large those days, consisting out of 1024 DRAM and VRAM chips
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http://chip-architect.com/SystollicArrayProcessor.pdf
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1987-1990 DTN: Dataflow processor
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The company DTN was a management buy out from Philips and I had the
responsibility for design of the "fifth generation" dataflow computer.
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The company was partly funded by governments grants.
Fifth generation computers
were a very hot item these days.
There was for the first time a notion that computers would become
large massively parallel processing engines.
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Many often
radically different architectures were considered to harness
all the processing
power which would become available.
The general expectation was that progress would come from applying
new
programming languages, advanced compilers, new computer architectures
together with inter connection systems.
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Article about the DTN Dataflow Computer in Dutch
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The RC compiler for the DTN dataflow computer
Parallel Computing, Postbus 16775, 1001, RG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract
The DTN Dataflow Computer is a graphics
workstation containing 32 dataflow processing elements. It may possibly
be the first commercially available dataflow machine. In this article
our main focus is on its RC compiler. Although dataflow machines are
usually programmed in a declarative language, RC is imperative: it is a
somewhat restricted form of C.
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Regards,
Hans
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Ray Tracing work: Some Ray Trace Images
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