HAMBURG, Germany, October 21, 2024 – The ISC Conference announced that nominations are open for the 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. The confeerene encourages community members to nominate early-career researchers they consider to have significantly contributed to scientific progress in their research fields. Nominations will close on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The guidelines […]
Two Researchers to Share 2024 Jack Dongarra Early Career HPC Award at ISC
April 10, 2024 by
Two early career researchers, Edgar Solomonik of the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign and Amanda Randles of Duke University, have been selected as the recipients of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award, to be presented at ISC 2024.
Torsten Hoefler Named First Winner of Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
April 17, 2023 by
HAMBURG, April 17, 2023 – Professor Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has been named the inaugural Jack Dongarra Early Career Award recipient. This award acknowledges his significant contributions to converging high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). His research focuses on performance-centric system design, which includes scalable networks, parallel programming techniques, and performance […]
ADIA Lab Announces Board Members, Collaborations and Research Award
December 2, 2022 by
Abu Dhabi, 2 December 2022 — ADIA Lab, focused on basic and applied research in data and computational sciences, commenced operations today, the 51st National Day of the UAE. As part of its launch, the lab announced the composition of its advisory board, the details of its first academic collaborations and the launch of a US$100,000 research award. ADIA […]
@HPCpodcast: Jack Dongarra Talks Turing Award, the TOP500 and the Past and Future of Supercomputing
May 5, 2022 by
At @HPCpodcast we’ve been fortunate to host some highly distinguished computer scientists and HPC thinkers, people who have shaped supercomputing as the technology has advanced human knowledge and taken on the world’s most vexing challenges. Today we welcome Jack Dongarra who was recently honored with the ACM Turing Award for “Pioneering Concepts and Methods Which Resulted in World-Changing Computations.” As the ACM said in its award announcement, “Dongarra has led the world of high-performance computing through his contributions to….
ACM Names Jack Dongarra Winner of 2021 Turing Award for Contributions to HPC
March 30, 2022 by
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Jack J. Dongarra recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades. Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical […]
@HPCpodcast: Dan Reed on the Challenges to U.S. Global Supercomputing Competitiveness
March 23, 2022 by
In a recently published paper, “Reinventing High Performance Computing: Challenges and Opportunities,” three HPC luminaries have started an important discussion about the future of HPC and its impact on American competitiveness. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, we talk with one of the authors, Dan Reed of the University of Utah, on the challenges facing the United States as it strives to compete globally in high-end supercomputing.
Jack Dongarra Named a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society
April 17, 2019 by
Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee has been named a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society, joining previously inducted icons of science such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. “This honor is both humbling because of others who have been so recognized and gratifying for the acknowledgement of the research and work I have done,” Dongarra said. “I’m deeply grateful for this recognition.”
Interview: HPC Thought Leaders Looking Forward to SC19 in Denver
January 18, 2019 by
In this special guest feature, SC19 General Chair Michela Taufer catches up with Sunita and Jack Dongarra to discuss the way forward for the November conference in Denver. “By augmenting our models and our ability to do simulation, HPC enables us to understand and do things so much faster than we could in the past – and it will only get better in the future.”
Jack Dongarra Awarded 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
September 7, 2018 by
Dr. Jack Dongarra has been selected to receive the 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering. The award will be presented at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) in February, 2019. “This award is presented every two years by SIAM and the Association for Computing Machinery in the area of computational science in recognition of outstanding contributions to the development and use of mathematical and computational tools and methods for the solution of science and engineering problems.”
