Kazushige Goto

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

Education

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 use his implementation of the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) known as GotoBLAS.

Career

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.

Further reading

• Goto, Kazushige; van de Geijn, Robert A. (2008). "Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication". ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. 34 (3): 12:1–12:25. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.111.3873. doi:10.1145/1356052.1356053. ISSN 0098-3500. S2CID 9359223. (25 pages) [1]
• Markoff, John Gregory (2005-11-28). "Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun: A Human Computer Keeps Speeding Up Chips". New York Times. Seattle, Washington, USA. Archived from the original on 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2010-03-04. [2]
• Green, Tim (2006-01-30). "The Human Code: Researcher's handcrafted work makes world's fastest computers run even faster". University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 2006-06-28.