Roland Ibbett
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Roland Ibbett FRSE.[1] FBCS[2] CEng SMIEEE
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| Born | Roland Norman Ibbett 1941 (age 82–83)[3] Burton upon Trent, England |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
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Early Life and Work[edit]
Roland Ibbett was born in Burton upon Trent, England, where he attended Burton Grammar School (1952-1959). From there he went on to study at the University of Manchester, graduating with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics in 1962. His third year included courses in the Electrical Engineering Department where lectures about the Atlas computer significantly influenced his long-term career. He had also developed an interest in astronomy, however, and moved to the University of Hull with James (Jim) Ring, newly appointed as Professor of Applied Physics[4]. Here Ibbett worked on designing and implementing digitisation techniques in astronomical spectrophotometry,[5][6][7], for which he was awarded an M.Sc. from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. from the University of Hull.
In 1966 he returned to Manchester to join the newly formed Department of Computer Science[8]. Here he soon became involved in a project led by Tom Kilburn to build a successor computer (MU5[9]) to the Atlas computer. Ibbett was a major contributor to the design and implementation of the hardware of the MU5 processor. MU5 was fully operational by the mid-1970s and in 1976 Ibbett spent four months as a Visiting associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, USA. Here he became involved with the ISPS project[10] and on returning to Manchester continued to work with colleagues at CMU in using ISPS[11] as an early user of the UK link to the ARPANET. In 1985 he moved to a chair in Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh[12].
Research and Teaching[edit]
Ibbett's research and teaching interests centred mainly on the architecture of high-performance computers [13][14]. In addition to his involvement in the MU5 project at Manchester, about which he has written extensively [15][16][17][18][19][20][21], he was also involved in the design and implementation of an experimental vector processor[22] and a local area network[23]. MU5 had a significant influence on the design of the ICL 2900 Series.
At the University of Edinburgh his main interests involved the use of HASE[24], a Hierarchical computer Architecture design and Simulation Environment[25], developed under his direction. HASE has been used as a virtual laboratory for research in computer architecture and as a teaching/learning environment [26][27]. He personally developed a number of HASE models for student demonstrations and exercises and was principal investigator on research projects to create and use simulation models of RAID systems[28] and the UKQCD computer architecture[29].
Ibbett retired from the university in 2006 but continued to create HASE models of historically interesting computers as a way of preserving knowledge about their principles of operation, e.g. the Manchester University "Baby", Atlas and MU5 computers, the CDC 6600 and the Cray 1 [30][31].
Professional Contributions[edit]
From 1987 to 1995 Ibbett was Head of the Department of Computer Science and from 1994 to 2000 was a University Vice-Principal. He was instrumental in setting up the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre[32] (EPCC).
He has contributed to the work of numerous professional bodies involved in offering degree level examinations, in accrediting computing degrees and in supporting academic staff in computing. These include the BCS Board of Examiners (1974-1988, Chair 1982–1987) [33] the BCS Qualifications and Standards Board and the Engineering Council Registration Standards Committee (2007-2013). He was the first Chair (1994-96) of the Conference (now Council) of Professors and Heads of Computing[34] and Chair (2000-2011) of the Higher Education Academy Information and Computer Sciences Subject Centre Advisory Board. He was Chair (2010-2017) of the Accreditation Committee of EQANIE, the European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education, and vice-president of EQANIE (2015-2017)[35]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Fellowship".
- ↑ "Roll of Honorary Fellows".
- ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ↑ "Jim Ring 1927–2005".
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett; P. H. Hindle (1966). "A Digitization System for a Scanning Spectrometer". Journal of Scientific Instruments. 43 (4): 209. Bibcode:1966JScI...43..209H. doi:10.1088/0950-7671/43/4/301.
- ↑ D. Clarke; R. N. Ibbett (1968). "A Three-channel Astronomical Photoelectric Spectropolarimeter". Journal of Scientific Instruments. 2. 1 (4): 409. Bibcode:1968JPhE....1..409C. doi:10.1088/0022-3735/1/4/310.
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett; M. J. Selby (1968). "A Digital Recording System for Fourier Transform Spectrometry". Journal of Scientific Instruments. 2. 1 (7): 745–748. Bibcode:1968JPhE....1..745I. doi:10.1088/0022-3735/1/7/311. PMID 5703443.
- ↑ "Department of Computer Science: History and heritage".
- ↑ "The University of Manchester MU5 Computer System".
- ↑ M.R. Barbacci. "An Introduction to ISPS".
- ↑ J. Djordjevic; R. N. Ibbett; M. R. Barbacci (1980). "Evaluation of Computer Architectures Using ISPS". Computers and Digital Techniques (IEE Procs. Part E). 127 (4): 120–125.
- ↑ "University of Manchester: Digital 60".
- ↑
R. N. Ibbett; N. P. Topham (1989). Architecture of High Performance Computers, 2nd Edition, Vol. I. Macmillan Educational. ISBN 0-333-46362-5. Search this book on
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R. N. Ibbett; N. P. Topham (1989). Architecture of High Performance Computers, 2nd Edition, Vol. II. Macmillan Educational. ISBN 0-333-48988-8. Search this book on
- ↑
D. Morris; R. N. Ibbett (1979). The MU5 Computer System. The Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-333-25750-2. Search this book on
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett (1972). "The MU5 Instruction Pipeline". Computer Journal. 15: 42–50.
- ↑ P. C. Capon; R. N. Ibbett (1975). "Array Operations in MU5". ACM Conference on Programming and Compilers for Parallel and Vector Machines, New York. New York: ACM: 133–137. doi:10.1145/800026.808412.
- ↑ M. A. Husband; R. N. Ibbett; R. Phillips (1976). The MU5 Computer Monitoring System. Eurocomp. London.
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett; M. A. Husband (1977). "The MU5 Name Store". Computer Journal. 20 (3): 227–231. doi:10.1093/comjnl/20.3.227.
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett; P. C. Capon (1978). "The Development of the MU5 Computer System". Communications of the ACM. 21 (1): 13–24.
- ↑ R.N. Ibbett (Spring 1999). "The University of Manchester MU5 Project". Annals of the History of Computing. IEEE. 21: 24–33. doi:10.1109/85.759366.
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett; P. C. Capon; N. P. Topham (June 1985). MU6V: A Parallel Vector Processing Unit. ISCA '85 International Symposium on Computer Architecture. IEEE. pp. 136–144.
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett; D. A. Edwards; T. P. Hopkins; C. K. Cadogan; D. A. Train (1985). "Centrenet - A High Performance Local Area Network". Computer Journal. 28 (3): 231–242. doi:10.1093/comjnl/28.3.231.
- ↑ "HASE - A Computer Architecture Simulation & Visualisation Environment".
- ↑
P. S. Coe; F. W. Howell; R. N. Ibbett; L. M. Williams (October 1998). "A Hierarchical Computer Architecture Design and Simulation Environment". ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation. 8 (4): 431–446. doi:10.1145/295251.295259. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ P. S. Coe; L. M. Williams; R. N. Ibbett (June 1996). An Interactive Environment for the Teaching of Computer Architecture". ACM SIGCSE/SIGCUE Joint Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education. Barcelona.
- ↑ Akram, Ayaz; Sawalha, Lina. "A Survey of Computer Architecture Simulation Techniques and Tools".
- ↑ Y. Li; T. Courtney; F. Chevalier; R. N. Ibbett (August 2006). SIMRAID: An Efficient Performance Evaluation Tool for RAID Systems. Summer Computer Simulation Conference. Canada. pp. 431–438.
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Sadaf Alam; Roland Ibbett; Frederic Mallet (Spring 2003). "Simulation of a Computer Architecture for Quantum Chromodynamics Calculations". ACM Crossroads. 9 (3): 16–23. doi:10.1145/904073.904078. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Roland Ibbett; David Dolman (Winter 2022). "Simulation Modelling of Historical Computers [1]". Resurrection (100): 13–21.
- ↑ Roland Ibbett; David Dolman (Spring 2023). "Simulation Modelling of Historical Computers [2]". Resurrection (101): 20–24.
- ↑ "A brief history of EPCC".
- ↑ R. N. Ibbett; I. D. Cottam; R. N. Zobel (September 1983). "Revisions to Examination Syllabuses". BCS Computer Bulletin.
- ↑ "CPHC: History".
- ↑ "EQANIE: About Us".
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