David Wood

David Wood is a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with primary affiliation to the College of Engineering. His research focuses on cost-effective computer architectures and tools for evaluating performance, feasibility, and correctness of new systems.

• Multi-paradigm multiprocessors integrating shared-memory, message-passing, and hybrid programming
• Virtual prototyping systems leveraging similarities between existing and hypothetical parallel machines
• Performance tuning techniques for program optimization

He developed Fast-Cache, a memory system simulation method optimizing cache hits to reduce simulation time, and Typhoon, a hardware platform implementing Tempest mechanisms for low-overhead inter-paradigm communication.