Jack Dongarra (November 2007)

Jack Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department [1] at the University of Tennessee. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their The University of Tennessee (also known as UT) sometimes called the University of Tennessee Knoxville ( UT Knoxville, or UTK) is the flagship He holds the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL) is a multiprogram science and technology National laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters Science and Art Dongarra holds the Turing Fellowship in the schools of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Manchester. The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester is the academic department providing the focus for teaching and research in Computer Science. The School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with around 80 academic staff and an The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. He is the founding director of Innovative Computing Laboratory. [2]

Jack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT is a private PhD-granting university located in the greater Chicago Illinois area with programs in Engineering, Science, Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. He received his Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980 under the supervision of Cleve Moler. The University of New Mexico ( UNM) is a Public University in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in Numerical analysis. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States Department of Energy 's oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar)

He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. Linear algebra is the branch of Mathematics concerned with Parallel computing is a form of computation in which many instructions are carried out simultaneously operating on the principle that large problems can often His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK [3], Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve[4], Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI[5]. EISPACK is a Software library for Numerical computation of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of matrices written in FORTRAN. LINPACK is a software library for performing numerical Linear algebra on digital computers Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms ( BLAS) is a de facto Application programming interface standard for publishing libraries to perform basic Linear algebra LAPACK, the Linear Algebra PACKage, is a Software library for numerical computing written in Fortran 77. The ScaLAPACK (or Scalable LAPACK library includes a subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers Netlib is a repository of software for Scientific computing maintained by AT&T, Bell Laboratories, the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge Message Passing Interface ( MPI) is a specification for an API that allows many computers to communicate with one another The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful known Computer systems in the world Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS is a software library for Linear algebra. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (or AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between Scientists defends scientific freedom encourages The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (read eye-triple-e) is an international Non-profit, professional organization The United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE is a private non-profit institution which was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the

External links

• Jack Dongarra's Homepage
• Lengthy oral history interview conducted with Dongarra by Thomas Haigh on behalf of SIAM