The Complier Date:   Friday , December 02, 2005 Creative talent to deal with any problem leads a person to become an innovator,” says Kalyan Muthukumar. For more than a decade now, Muthukumar has been writing optimizing compilers for various processors and just loves doing it. Muthukumar is passionate to share his innovation on prefetching data from memory to the Intel Itanium processor. “The complexity lies in prefetching data using fewer instructions,” he notes. Today his compiler plays a critical role in getting the best performance for applications, which run on Intel Itanium Processors. Generally prefetching data for multiple memory accesses requires many instructions. However, using special architectural features of the Itanium processor, Muthukumar has come up with a clever way to do such prefetching with fewer instructions. This helps to improve the performance of applications. He believes that innovation is the life-blood of the hi-tech industry, and it is the key driver that will help the Indian companies move up the value chain. Kalyan Muthukumar 46 Engineering Manager, Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. l.Muthukumar writes compliers for processors. 2. Received six patents, with eight pendings. 3. Kumar received his B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, Master’s from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York (1983-85) and Ph.D. from the University of Texas. 4. Muthukumar joined IBM in 1991 then he moved to Apple Computer in 1995 and after two years he joined Intel Corporation, California in 1997. In 2001 Muthukumar relocated to Intel India, Bangalore.