Jack Dongarra wins Turing Award

There is no way to overestimate the impact of Dr. Dongarra and LINPACK. If you're active in the high performance computing world you know them both quite well. Well done Jack!

Just came here to leave a Google Scholar Link listing hist work: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;citations?user=X4SbSTAAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.com&#x2F;citations?user=X4SbSTAAAAAJ&amp;hl=en...</a><p>Enjoy, and congratulations!

Ever since I started using R and Pandas&#x2F;NumPy, I always wondered who wrote and maintained all those linear algebra libraries. Embarrassingly I didn&#x27;t know until now.<p>Very well deserved!

This makes me proud to have been faculty at University of Tennessee, even if I recently resigned :)

I visited Tennessee once, walked by a bar and saw a sign saying «Jack lives here». Fun story.<p>Also, well deserved. I still recall the one talk by Jack Dongarra I ever saw. He threw out there that the iPad 2 had (at the time) the highest performance-per-watt CPU in the world. I’ve waited for the «apple M1 moment» since then - and now, suddenly… fantastic talk covering the whole HPC topic!

Is this the first Turing Award for writing free software? As opposed to papers, I mean.<p>(They did mention his papers, but it seems clear that the software was more important.)

&gt; Dongarra led the field in persuading hardware vendors to optimize these methods, and software developers to target his open-source libraries in their work<p>I’ve got the gut feeling that this work might be 90% harder and longer than the whole math.<p>Also wondering how much work was indeed made within a team rather than particular contributions.

Well deserved Dr Dongarra. BLAS, LINPACK, so much amazing software and insights over the years.

This man is indirectly responsible for Python becoming the lingua-franca of data science. Without Scipy&#x2F;numpy wrapping his libraries, Python would not have achieved the success it has today.

Ah, I personally preferred gotoblas to linpack as it was faster (keep in mind this was a few years ago when I did research, no idea how it kept up). I also enjoyed the story of how an unknown Japanese student ( Mr Goto - cool name ) outdid all the top linear algebra implementations by hand writing everything in assembly. It was an amazing story. This was when everyone said assembly was dead.

He hadn&#x27;t already?

That&#x27;s the first time I hear his name. For people in the same situation as me, from the article:<p>&gt; For over four decades, Dongarra has been the primary implementor or principal investigator for many libraries such as LINPACK, BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, PLASMA, MAGMA, and SLATE.<p>Thank you for your work and congratulations!

Is this the first Turing Award in HPC?

My CS professor at MTSU Ralph Butler (helped write the MPD in MPI) was good friends with Jack, iirc Butler brought him in for a talk. Very knowledgeable in all things HPC.

I guess living a reasonably long life is one of the prerequisites of getting a Turing Award.

Well deserved, and congratulations!!

well deserved, amazing it took so long

For a sec there I thought the Turing test was passed...