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Frank P. O'Connell IBM Enterprise Server Group, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (oconnell@us.ibm.com). Mr. O'Connell is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Future Processor Performance Department, where he has been a member of the RS/6000 high-performance processor development effort since 1992. For the past 15 years, he has focused on scientific and technical computing performance within IBM, including microprocessor and systems design, operating system and compiler performance, algorithm development, and application tuning, in the capacity of both product development and customer support. Mr. O'Connell received a B.S.M.E. degree from the University of Connecticut and an M.S. degree in engineering–economic systems from Stanford University.
Steven W. White IBM Enterprise Server Group, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (white@austin.ibm.com).
Dr. White is a Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Enterprise Server Group. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Texas A&M University, where he also taught for the Electrical Engineering Department for three years. In 1982, he joined IBM to work on mainframe scientific and engineering processor development, architecture, and system design. He had a two-year assignment with the computational physics group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. White has authored or co-authored more than two dozen papers in a variety of areas including VLSI design, parallel processing, numerical algorithms, code optimization, system design, performance analysis, human genome research, and compilers. He was the primary editor for PowerPC and POWER2: Technical Aspects of the New IBM RISC System/6000. He has been granted twenty-two U.S. patents and has six pending applications. Dr. White was a recipient of the 1999 Gordon Bell Award for “highest sustained performance.” He has also received an IBM Corporate Award, an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, two IBM Division Awards, an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, seven IBM Invention Awards, three IBM supplemental patent awards, and several informal awards. He is a registered professional engineer.
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