Frank Soltis

Frank G. Soltis (born 1940), an American computer scientist, is IBM's Chief Scientist for the System i computers. Based on his Ph.D. research, his pioneering architecture of technology-independent machine interface (TIMI) and single-level store has appeared in these eight generations of IBM hardware: System/38 in 1978, the CISC AS/400 in 1988, the RISC AS/400 in 1995, the web server AS/400e in 1999 (supporting HTTP and TCP/IP), the eServer iSeries, the System i5, the System i, and Power Systems running i (April, 2008).

Academic career

In November 1968, Frank Soltis moved to Rochester, Minnesota, after getting his PhD in computer engineering from Iowa State University. [cite web
url=http://www.cs.iastate.edu/alumni2/phd.jsp
title=Department of Computer Science - Alumni Database
accessdate=2008-07-01
publisher=Iowa State University] As of 2008, in addition to his IBM responsibilities, Soltis continues as an adjunct professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Minnesota where he teaches graduate courses on high performance computer design. [cite web | title = The AS/400's Grandfather Talks Past, Present, and Future | work = ITJungle Volume 17, Number 25 -- June 23, 2008 | url = http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh062308-story01.html | accessmonthday = June 23 | accessyear = 2008 ] [cite web
url=http://www.catalogs.umn.edu/grad/programs/g061.html#faculty
title=Graduate School Catalog - Electrical Engineering
accessdate=2008-06-30
publisher=University of Minnesota]

Soltis led the design of the "Amazon" instruction set architecture, an extended version of the 64-bit PowerPC architecture; the Amazon architecture is implemented by the RS64, POWER4, and POWER5 processors used in the IBM iSeries and pSeries computers.

Soltis' "By Design" [cite web
url=http://systeminetwork.com/department/design
title=By Design
accessdate=2008-04-15
publisher=System iNetwork] column appears in " [http://www.systeminetwork.com/ System iNEWS] " magazine. His books include "Inside the AS/400" and "Fortress Rochester, The Inside Story of the IBM iSeries".

Books

*Soltis, Frank G. (1997). "Inside the AS/400", Duke Press. ISBN 1-882419-66-9
*Soltis, Frank G. (2001). "Fortress Rochester: the Inside Story of the IBM iSeries", NEWS/400 Books. ISBN 1-58304-083-8

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