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A Tribute to Ron Denny (1946-2021) from Data Vortex on Vimeo.

A remembrance from Data Vortex Inventor Dr. Coke S. Reed (June 5, 2021):

“Ron Denny was a brilliant engineer and a true patriot. During my time at the Institute for Defense Analyses, I studied all the machines Ron delivered to the United States government. These studies were responsible for shaping the way I viewed computers and helped shepherd the abstract Data Vortex idea into hardware. As soon as Ron retired from General Dynamics, I knew for certain that he needed to be part of our team. Bringing him on was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Without Ron Denny, the Data Vortex as we know it would not exist. There would be no systems delivered nor hardware designed. In Ron, I had not only a brilliant colleague but a wonderful friend. This friendship was like no other. Over the past fifteen years, Ron would visit Sylvia and me in Austin. We would spend hours on end sitting in my back room, working on new ideas, drinking glasses of Pinot Grigio, eating his beloved “Bin #78″ olives and telling stories. Oftentimes, he would dismiss mathematical equations as “chicken scratch” but always understood them better than he let on.

At every occasion, Ron would raise his glass and give a simple, but extremely meaningful toast:  “Here’s to changing the world!”

Ron succeeded in doing that in more ways than one. And through the current direction of the company, we intend for his legacy to change the world even further.”

Coke Reed (Left) with John Neuberger (Right) in 2013

Remembrance of Professor Alfonso Castro

I first learned of Professor John W. Neuberger when studying nonlinear semigroups as a graduate student. His formula for the exponential of a nonlinear semigroup got me very interested in following his work.

I first met John in person at a meeting in Oklahoma State University. When one of the organizers of that meeting introduced me to John I could not believe how kind he could be to a recent Ph.D. considering his mathematical stature. Right after his talk I asked him about connections of his work with symmetric positive systems that I was studying at that time. His encouraging reply was a big boost for my beginning career as an independent researcher. At that time, I was working in Mexico which made it convenient for John to visit me. Actually, he was invited to Mexico by universities other than mine which allowed me to interact with John on several occasions. In one of those occasions my boss, Samuel Gitler, invited John, I and the corresponding wives for dinner to a very fancy restaurant in the Zona Rosa. It only took a quick exchange of platitudes for the conversation to turn into a dialog between John and Samuel because John knew quite a bit about a family of polynomials that show up in cohomology theory which was Sam’s specialty. After dinner we walked around the Zona Rosa while their mathematical conversation went on and on.

On another occasion, while John was visiting Mexico invited by a university other than mine and accompanied by his wife Barbara and his daughter Sandra, I invited them to go to Puebla. An archeological feature of the Puebla area is the Cholula pyramid. This pyramid is so large that Spaniards preferred to cover it with dirt to make it look like a mountain rather than destroying it. The pyramid was eventually discovered and a tunnel was built to allow people to see the different stages of construction of the pyramid. The tunnel is about five feet tall and rather narrow. When we arrived at the pyramid, I proceeded to get into the tunnel followed by Barbara, Sandra, Miryam (my wife), others and John. I felt very bad to have suggested that part of the excursion when I exited the tunnel and saw John coming last almost crawling. His height not always worked in his favor but he was a truly good-sport.

My time at UNT was made many times more pleasant and productive because of John’s presence. He really knew the meaning of mentor and colleague. By the time I arrived at UNT John had developed a large group of graduate students interested in the general area of Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.

Immediately John found a way for me to start a seminar that included graduate students McCabe, Dawson, Lee, Kurepa and Unsurangsie. The first three students completed their doctoral dissertations with John and the last two with me. From that point on there was a constant stream of well qualified students that have gone on to pursue successful careers. John’s contagious energy and optimism made every event so much more exciting. Two consecutive grants from the Texas Advanced Research Program, new results, papers published, etc., every day John renewed the energy of the least optimistic in the group.

My last in person reunion with John was in November of 2017 when Miryam and I visited the Neuberger’s in their retirement place. By that time John’s physical health had deteriorated quite a bit but his mind was sharp as a tack. The three days we spent together our conversation was 99% devoted to understanding the connection between his amazing characterization of local semigroups in his paper “A linear condition determining local or global existence for nonlinear problems” (2013) with blow up phenomena. John’s approach to determining when a local flow is global is by appealing to the linear semigroup defined in the phase space in the spirit of Lie group theory. His approach, for example, addresses precisely The Clay Institute Millennium Problem on the Navier-Stokes equation. It is too bad that life did not give us John for a few more years for maybe we would be celebrating the solution to one of the main questions in mathematics.

Alfonso Castro
McAllister Professor, Harvey Mudd College
January 2nd., 2021

• Using memory semantics at scale, a Data Vortex network efficiently supports disaggregation of the data center, allowing large, shared pools of memory. GPU and CPU resource can easily be allocated across the entire data center and by all users.
• The DV IP block can be implemented at the processor package level, as the Data Vortex can be used as a low latency chiplet interconnect switch, interconnecting chiplets of GPUs, CPUs, TPUs, memory controllers, and more.
• Lastly, the on-die network (Data Vortex Network on Chip) enables interconnecting many small compute elements. The DV network’s radix and size is parameterizable to suit users’ particular application needs and can be easily tiled in a physical ASIC mesh

This year, two new patents on core-to-core communication and improved data transfer for big data graph analytics, have been filed. Simulations of the IP Block were completed in September (partial results shown in graph above). Data Vortex Technologies is working with select buyers and licensees to ensure this intellectual property fits within existing and road-mapped product lines and address mission critical areas of need.

This release was published in:

HPCwire – https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/data-vortex-announces-memory-semantic-load-store-switch-for-ai-hpc-graph-analytics/

EnterpriseAI – https://www.enterpriseai.news/2020/11/13/data-vortex-announces-memory-semantic-load-store-switch-for-ai-hpc-graph-analytics/

Datanami – https://www.datanami.com/this-just-in/data-vortex-announces-memory-semantic-load-store-switch-for-ai-hpc-graph-analytics/