China was home to the world’s fastest supercomputer for a mere six months before being passed up by Japan. In this story from NPR, Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering, discusses the progress China has made in its high-performance computing capabilities since 2001. Dongarra creates the
Professor Jack Dongarra discusses the Japanese “K Computer” in this New York Times article. The machine recently earned the top stop on the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Dongarra, a distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering, keeps the official rankings of computer performance.
This story in The New York Times looks at Jack Dongarra’s comparison of the current iPad 2 tablet computer with its predecessor, the original iPad, as well as with the Cray 2 supercomputer, which was the world’s fastest supercomputer in 1985. Dongarra is a distinguished professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College
Science360, an up-to-date view of breaking science from around the world, featured the video “Developing the Next Generation of Supercomputers.” The video looks at how UT professor Jack Dongarra is leading the international charge in developing the world’s next generation of supercomputers. Science360 is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
NVIDIA Corp. has recognized the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) as a CUDA Center of Excellence, noting its adoption of the CUDA programming model in its curriculum, as well as its pioneering research into the development of linear algebra libraries for the high-performance computing community.