Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:04:25 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.1 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 20:01:04 GMT Content-length: 5590 Allan Gottlieb's home page

Welcome to Allan Gottlieb's Home Page

I am a professor in the Computer Science Department within the Courant Institute of New York University, and director of the NYU Ultracomputer Research Laboratory.

Reaching Me

Use email if possible; I read it frequently. Fax is not great; it may take a day or two to deliver.

Upcoming Conferences with which I am Affiliated

Academic Family Tree

My Book

George S. Almasi and Allan Gottlieb
Highly Parallel Computing (Second Edition)
Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1994
ISBN 0-8053-0443-6

A Short Bio

Our Ultracomputer group studies a wide range of issues in highly parallel computing. We have constructed two generations of hardware an 8-processor, bus-based system in the 1980s and a 16-processor, 16-memory module system in the 90s. Both systems have hardware support for fetch-and-add, our coordination primitive. The newer system contains full-custom switches of our own design that combine simultaneous references to the same memory address, thereby avoiding one important class of hot spot contention problems. We have a very highly parallel operating system Symunix running on both systems.

I was born 2 August 1945 in Queens NYC to Frances and Irving Gottlieb. When I was five, my family moved to a NYC surburb called Elmont, Long Island where I attended the public schools through high school. I went to MIT as an undergraduate and Brandeis as a graduate student. All my degrees are in mathematics.

My introduction to computers (specifially an IBM 650 and a Bendix G15) occured during high school when I attended the Columbia University Science Honors Program on Saturdays.

My beautiful wife Alice is an associate medical director at Hoffman-LaRoche. She obtained a Ph.D. in immunology from Rockefeller University, an M.D. from Cornell Medical School, and medical subspeciality degrees from N.Y. Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgery. My two active boys, David and Michael, are in middle school and fourth grade respectively (1994-95). I hope to have a family photo available soon.