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Kazushige Goto

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Kazushige Gotō (後藤和茂, Gotō Kazushige) is a software engineer specializing in high performance, hand-written, machine code.

Education

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Goto was a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin when he wrote his famously hand-optimized assembly routines for supercomputing and PC platforms that outperform the best compiler generated code.

Several of the fastest supercomputers in the world still[when?] use his implementation of the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) known as GotoBLAS.[citation needed]

Career

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In 2010, Goto joined Microsoft's Technical Computing Group with the title of Senior Researcher.

In July 2012, he joined Intel with the title of Software Engineer.

Goto continues to write hand-optimized machine code, utilizing detailed knowledge of the architecture to which he has access.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Goto, Kazushige. "Kazushige Goto". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2014-03-06.

Further reading

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