Ravi Arimilli is an IBM Fellow

IBM Fellow

An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 to 9 IBM Fellows are appointed each year, at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event in May or June. It is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve.The IBM Fellows program...

 and Chief Architect. Largely responsible for development of the POWER5

POWER5

The POWER5 is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by IBM. It is an improved version of the highly successful POWER4. The principal improvements are support for simultaneous multithreading and an on-die memory controller...

, he is one of the most prolific inventors in the world, being awarded 78 patent

Patent

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s in 2002 and a further 53 in 2003. He has won IBM's Inventor of the Year award each year since 1998. He is NOT the youngest IBM Fellow (contrary to what some news reports have mentioned). He has over 400 patents to his name and is currently listed among the top 10 patent holders alive in the USA.

Arimilli moved with his family to the United States

United States

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 from Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, in 1969. Caste Kamma (caste)

Kamma (caste)

Kamma or the Kammavaru is a social group that are classed as Upper Shudras is found largely in the Southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and Karnataka. The Kamma population was 795,732 in the year 1881. According to 1921 census they constituted about 4.8% of Andhra Pradesh...

 (Chaudhary).He studied at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

, and joined IBM in 1985. He is regarded as IBM's leading expert on symmetric multiprocessing

Symmetric multiprocessing

In computing, symmetric multiprocessing involves a multiprocessor computer hardware architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single shared main memory and are controlled by a single OS instance. Most common multiprocessor systems today use an SMP architecture...

 (SMP) system structures, cache

Cache

In computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere...

/memory hierarchies and system bus

System bus

A system bus is a single computer bus that connects the major components of a computer system. The technique was developed to reduce costs and improve modularity....

protocols.