[ieeetcsc-discuss] IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra

[Manish Parashar]

The IEEE Technical committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) is happy to
announce that the IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing has been
awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra.

Professor Dongarra is University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee and holds
the title of Distinguished Research Staff in the Computer Science and
Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turning Fellow
at Manchester University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science
Department at Rice University. He is the director of the Innovative
Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He is also the director
of the Center for Information Technology Research at the University of
Tennessee which coordinates and facilitates IT research efforts at the
University.

Professor Dongarra's contributions have been fundamental to establishing the
scalable computing community. He has broad and significant technical
contributions through his research, publications and software systems, which
range from BLAS/Linpack/Lapack to PVM/MPI and Netsolve as well as the Top
500 list, many of which have become industry standards. He has also been
instrumentals in establishing key activities, including conferences and
workshops, in the broader area of scalable computing.

The IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing, was established in 2008
by TCSC to recognize significant contributions to the scalable computing
community through TCSC and/or its activities, coupled with an outstanding
record of high quality and high impact research. Details of award can be
found at http://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/ieee-medal.html. The award includes
a medal and a honorarium of $1000. As part of the award, Professor Dongarra
will present the opening keynote at the CCGrid Conference,  May 19-23, in
Lyon, France (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/ccgrid2008/).

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