Jack Dongarra’s supercomputing work just won a Turing. Now he’s looking to Big Cloud.

Photo caption: Dongarra has spent the last 50 years helping advance exascale supercomputing. Photo courtesy of Jack Dongarra. Article by Kate Kaye. Protocol – March 30, 2022.

Even Jack Dongarra has a hard time wrapping his head around the number used to represent “exascale” computing: 10¹⁸. But Dongarra, an expert in linear algebra algorithms and distinguished professor of computer science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, is sure of one thing. “That’s a staggering amount of computing power.” Indeed. Ten-to-the-eighteenth-power represents 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second, the amount of computing power possible in just one exascale supercomputer. In supercomputing parlance, it’s called an exaflop. […]

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