David has been a part of IBM Z’s Microprocessor and Nest Performance teams, and Microprocessor Design and Verification teams with Poughkeepsie Engineering for ~25 years. In his current role he is a client-facing lab representative for system performance inquiries and critical situations worldwide and co-develops the Large Systems Performance Reference (LSPR) and the MIPS and MSUs ratings. He has led and co-developed five generations of IBM Z core performance models that have helped to shape the hardware designs and supply projection data to brand and marketing. He is a co-author of roughly 30 patents.
Email: hutton@us.ibm.com