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Lloyd Dickman

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Summary

Extensive background in computer and interconnect architecture, including product definition, competitive

analysis and project management.

Bio

Now involved in a new startup, Lloyd Dickman was previously CTO for InfiniBand Products at QLogic as

well as a Distinguished Architect at PathScale (company acquired by QLogic, and technology later

acquired by Intel), working on performance oriented interconnects. For many years, he headed the

computer systems architecture and product planning groups at Amdahl where he directed the architecture

and planning of several successful computer lines. Prior to that, he headed the computer systems

architecture research group at DEC. His background includes work on high performance networking,

instruction set design, multiprocessor structures, secure computing, virtual machine a rchitectures, system

software and VLSI design. He is a speaker at SC, ISC and SNW and other technical conferences

and has held leadership roles in ACM SIGARCH, InfiniBand Trade Association and OpenFabrics

Alliance. He was awarded US Patents for contributions in computer architecture and has held adjunct

teaching positions at Berkeley, Northwestern, San Francisco State, Lowell and Northeastern.

Professional Experience

Bay Storage Technology VP Architecture 2011-present

http://www.baystoragetechnology.com/

QLogic / PathScale CTO InfiniBand Products 2003-2011

Joined PathScale in 2003 as a Distinguished Architect. PathScale was acquired by QLogic in

2006. Responsible for InfiniBand technical product strategy. Significant focus on HPC (High

Performance Computing). Represented the company on the boards of the InfiniBand Trade

Association and the OpenFabrics Alliance. Member of IBTA Technical Working Group and Chair

of OpenFabrics Technical Advisory Group. Speaker at SC, ISC, SNW and other technical

conferences.

Adjunct Professor San Francisco State University, Computer Science Department Summer 2003

Taught upper division computer science and software development courses. Topics include

object-oriented design, compiler writing, large project software methodologies, byte -code virtual

machine interpreters, and architectural implications of software structure and design. C++ and

Java are used in these courses.

Visiting Professor Northwestern University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering W inter 2002/3

Taught upper division computer architecture course and senior computer engineering design

seminar. Topics included architectural interfaces, data path design, control structures, cache and

storage hierarchies, buses and i/o systems. Course projects included design of an extensive

ARM subset (with cache), MIPS-lite subset, and SoC designs using ASIC libraries and VHDL.

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Consultant

Consulting projects include:

Storage system strategy and product plan

Technology due diligence of startup companies

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Patent expert research

Phototablet / Fotiva Consultant 2001-2002

Developed architecture for innovative client based consumer software product, and server -

network design (Weblogic and Tomcat). Acquired by Adobe.

Bpath Vice President R&D 2000-2001

Amdahl Corporation SmartCard Group Vice President, Operations 1998-2000

Directed operations for a division in the emerging smart card payments market. Global

responsibilities with installed systems in North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia a nd Australia.

Amdahl Corporation Corporate Technology Group Chief of Staff 1992-1998

Developed transition plan to place mainframe product line on emerging CMOS technology curve.

Negotiated processor joint development agreement with Fujitsu to align R&D model with

compressed product margins. Worked to restructure other product groups by redirecting Storage

business and product plans as well as forming two new business units to move company into

higher growth markets. Responsible executive for IT inf rastructure, supporting 1,200 engineers.

Amdahl Corporation Products Group Senior Director, Architecture and Planning 1981-1992

Headed Architecture and Product Planning groups. Responsible for product compatibility,

internal architecture design and specification, product requirements, product planning,

competitive analysis and trusted systems design.

Established architecture management process and chaired Architecture Review

Board. Responsible for architecture design and technical coordination with strategic partners .

R&D teams in US and Japan.

University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Division - Visiting Professor 1980-1981

Digital Equipment Corporation Product Development and Research Group 1974-1980

Developed high-end servers and headed Computer Systems Architecture research. Research

initiatives included string pr ocessing instruction set enhancements, secure computing, reliable

computing structures and multiprocessor structures. Projects in multiprocessor structures and

reliable computing were conducted with Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU).

Managed engineering projects for secure operating system design (VMS/SE) and PDP-11/VAX-

11 architecture design. Supervised university research partnerships on multi-processor

structures for high-performance (Cm*) and high-reliability (triplicated LSI-11).

RCA Advanced Technology Laboratory and Aerospace Systems Division Senior Engineer 1970-1974

At RCA, architected and designed VLSI chips for large -scale pattern matching application

customer was Naval Research Lab s Associative Processor Microprocessor Element program.

Completed chip architecture, design. Chip fabricated and provided to customer.

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Designed and implemented real-time operating systems and compilers for automated testing

applications. OS was part of demonstration project for Army Tank and Automotive Com mand

instrumented Jeep was successfully diagnosed for numerous engine maintenance problems.

Demonstration was successful and resulted in expansion of the project to include other military

vehicles. Atlas language compiler and associated Java-like byte-code virtual machine execution

environment was developed for Navy S3-A aircraft maintenance program.

Classified work on aircraft missile warning system.

Additional Activities

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture. Past officer of ACM SigArch.

Life-member member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Member of IEEE and Senior Member of ACM.

Organized and General Chair for the original Architecture Symposium on Architectural Support for

Program Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS I).

Taught graduate courses in programming languages, data structures and systems programming at

Northeastern University and University of Lowell.

Holder of 4 US Patents.

Education

Lehigh University BSEE 1970 / MSEE 1971 - Master s thesis on VLSI systems design. Design of VLSI

associative processor element. Graduate research project on high-performance pattern matching and

recognition.

Harvard University - Graduate course work in computer science. Design studies of virtual machine

architectures.

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