A Professor of Practice Path: From Intel to Texas A&M

Aakash Tyagi

Professor, CSE Department,

Texas A&M University

Our Lives and Careers are Governed by Random Events

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DIRECTED RANDOMOur lives and careers are impacted by external eventsRandom events are truly NOT under our controlSome events truly CANNOT be influenced

But some events CAN be controlledAnd certainly many events CAN be influenced

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IDENTIFY, SELECT, and NUDGE variables and outcomes towards the desired direction

Steve Jobs @ 2005 Stanford Commencement

• Connect the Dots…..Start a new path believing that the dots will connect down the road

• Find what you love. Love what you do. Keep looking, don’t settle

• Don’t waste living someone else’s life….Follow your heart and intuition; they already know what you truly want to become

I first heard this in 2013 but feel like somehow these words were always guiding my path

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Priorities & Variables in our Environment

health

social

family

finances

advice

teachers

spiritual

awareness

aspirations

competition

friends

charity

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network

exams

Circa: early 00’sCirca: mid 80’s Circa: ‘14

At different stages in our lives, different things take precedence. These can occur in the most natural (accidental) way or can be

consciously planned or “nudged” (Directed Random)

My Path So far…

Good in Math and Science?

May the Lordhelp the child

SchoolEE B.Tech

CollegeEngineer ORDoctor

Ph.D. CE Asst Prof

1st sem disaster

LarrabeeExperiment

Intel

Practice?

TAMU

ORG

‘87‘83

‘94 ‘14

No more life

flowcharts

No

My Continuing Life Lesson

Know Thyself and Thy Environment, EXECUTE and OWN your Happiness

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Hear what Steve Jobs had to say, and then listen to it again a few more times…..

There is a real life lesson in Simulated Annealing

BACKUP

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Pentium®

Pentium® II/III

Pentium® 4

Knights Ferry

Knights Corner

Knights Landing

1994 1996 1998 2000 2003 2010 2012 2014

My History of Intel Processors

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Participated in these Key Trends

Feature size

Knights Landing (Xeon Phi)

Knights Corner (Xeon Phi)

Knights Ferry (Xeon Phi SDV)

Prescott (Pentium 4®)

Tualatin (Pentium® III)

Coppermine (Pentium® III)

Deschutes (Pentium® II)

P54CS (Pentium® )

350nm

250nm

180nm

130nm

90nm

45nm

22nm

14nm

Frequency

133MHz

450MHz

733MHz

1.0GHz

3.4GHz

1.1GHz

1.23Ghz

TBA

# of Cores

1

1

1

1

1

32

62

72

# trans, metal

3M, 3

8M, 5

28M, 6

32M, 6

169M, 7

2.3B, 9

~5B, 9

~8B, >9

33.8PF

0.118PF

Top500.org

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Democratizing High Performance Computing

ASCI RED was reported at $70M in today’s money. One can buy a Knights Corner Card on amazon.com for $1557

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Growth paths of an Intel Engineer employed in Product

DesignTypical Progression of Roles in Design Engineering

Progress Measurement Indicators

Expectations Spectrum

Grade Entry(E) E+1 E+2 E+3 E+4 E+5 E+6 E+7

Independent Execution Low Medium High Expert Expert Expert Expert Expert

Scope - Technical Low Medium High Expert Expert Expert Expert Expert

Scope - Ambiguity Low Medium High High Expert Expert Expert Expert

Leadership NA Low Medium High Expert Expert Expert Expert

Influence: Group-Wide NA Low Medium Medium High Expert Expert Expert

Influence: Company WideNA NA NA Low Medium High

Expert Expert

Typical Title and Roles in Technical Track

ComponentOwner

ComponentOwner

Component Owner Section Owner Tech Lead Principal Engineer Senior

Principal Engineer

Fellow

Member of a Project

Horizontal Activity

Driver of a moderate scope

Project Horizontal

Activity

Driver of a high scope Project

Horizontal Activity

Driver of multiple high scope project

horizontal activities

Solution Owner of Toughest

Problems in the area of expertise

at Group Level

Creator/Driver of Technical Initiatives at Corporate Level

Creator/Driver of Multiple Technical Initiatives at Corporate Level

Typical Title and Roles in Management Track

Component Owner

Component Owner

Component Owner Section Owner Section

ManagerProject

Manager Director Vice President

Member of

a Project Horizontal

Activity

Driver of a moderate scope

Project Horizontal

Activity

Driver of a high scope Project

Horizontal Activity

Manager of People and

Cluster/Functional Teams

Manager of Project or Multiple

Cluster/Functional Teams

Manager of Project or

Organizatio

Manager of Large

Business or Engineering Organizatio

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