Turing Award Won by Programmer Who Paved Way for Supercomputers - The New York Times

In the 1970s, Jack Dongarra created code and concepts that allowed software to work easily with the world’s most powerful computing machines.

In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Jack Dongarra helped write computer code called Linpack. Linpack offered a way to run complex mathematics on … [+1087 chars]

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