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Dec 11, 2022 · Fundamentals

How Jack Dongarra’s Linpack Revolutionized Supercomputing and Earned a Turing Award

Jack Dongarra, a pioneering computer scientist, created the Linpack library and benchmark that enabled software to scale from laptops to exaflop supercomputers, earning him the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award and shaping modern high‑performance and cloud computing.