Jack Dongarra

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Provost's Lecture Series: Jack Dongarra

Nov 16, 2016

Jack Dongarra is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. He also holds the title of Distinguished Research Staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dongarra specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. He has contributed to the design and implementation of open source numerical software packages such as LINPACK, BLAS, LAPACK, and MPI. His LINPACK Benchmark is used to rate the world’s fastest supercomputers culminating in the yearly Top500 list.

Professor Dongarra examines how high performance computing has changed over the last ten years and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic, distributed and parallel environments. Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile-time and run-time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run-time environment variability will make these problems much harder. His talk will focus on the redesign of software to fit multicore architectures.

 

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Article "Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers"
In the 1970s, Jack Dongarra created code and concepts that allowed software to work easily with the world’s most powerful computing machines.

by Cade Metz
March 30, 2022

Turing Award