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"what does a PHD in Physical Oceanography have to do with bandwidth?"

One aspect of Physical Oceanography is the rock layers under the ocean. When you shoot seismics, you analyze the data with some heavily floating point computations. So McCalpin got involved with this stuff and wrote an important benchmarking tool, STREAM.

So why does this interest AMD? Well, if they wanted to develop a high performance vector engine to attach via HTT, McCalpin would be a good choice as to what is needed...