Jack Dongarra

Affiliation:: Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science; Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Mathematical Science Section

Mailing address:: Jack Dongarra; Computer Science Department; University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN 37996-1301; (see map to CS Department); (see map Knoxville downtown area); (see map to ORNL); (Information on the Knoxville area)

Email: dongarra@cs.utk.edu
Phone: 423-974-8295
Fax: 423-974-8296
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Our group, called the Innovative Computer Laboratory (ICL), is part of the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee and is engaged in research in various areas of high-performance computing. The

Scientific Computing Program in the Computer Science Department at UT.

Here are some projects we are involved in:

BLACS: Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms are a linear algebra oriented message passing standard.
BLAS: machine constants, vector and matrix * vector BLAS
HeNCE: Heterogeneous Network Computing Environment, click here to mail the authors.
LAPACK: solving the most common problems in numerical linear algebra, click here to mail the authors.
Linpack Benchmark: How to get the report Click here for the postscript version of the report.
Linpack Benchmark in Java.
MPI: message passing interface (draft specifications), click here to mail the authors.
netlib: Central repository for mathematical software, papers, and databases, click here to mail the authors.
Parkbench: parallel benchmark working group, click here to mail the authors.
NHSE: National HPCC Software Exchange: Central repository for HPCC activities.
Parkbench: parallel benchmark working group, click here to mail the authors.
PVM3: parallel virtual machine version 3, click here to mail the authors.
Scalapack: software for MIMD distributed memory computers for some of the lapack routines, click here to mail the authors.
Templates Report: Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems, Building Blocks for Iterative Method, click here to mail the authors.
XNETLIB: X windows interface to netlib, click here to mail the authors.
Top500 Report: Table of the sites that have the 500 fastest supercomputers worldwide.
IML++: IML++ (Iterative Methods Library) is a C++ templated library of modern iterative methods for solving both symmetric and nonsymmetric linear systems of equations.

Here are some recent talks:

Software Exchange, Class Material and Templates for Parallel Computing SIAM Annual Meeting, October 23-26, 1995.

The Impact of RISC and Parallel RISC on Linear Algebra Software IBM Symposium on 25 Years of RISC, November 7-8, 1995.

Software Standards and Tools for Concurrent Computing.

Evolving Software Repositories .

Here are some working note collections:

LAWNS LAPACK Working Notes
NCWNS Network Computing Working Notes
SRWNS Software Repository Working Notes

Here are some recent books:

Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems: Building Blocks for Iterative Methods
PVM - A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing
MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard
LAPACK Users' Guide (Second Edition)
MPI: The Complete Reference

Here are some recent papers:

The Design and Implementation of the ScaLAPACK LU, QR, and Cholesky Factorization Routines, Jaeyoung Choi, Jack Dongarra, Susan Ostrouchov, Antoine Petitet, David W. Walker, and R. Clint Whaley, To appear in Scientific Programming. Click here for the postscript version.
Recent Enhancements to PVM Adam Beguelin, Jack Dongarra, Al Geist, Robert Manchek, and Vaidy Sunderam, International Journal of Supercomputing Applications and High Performance Computing, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer 1995.
Software Distribution Using XNETLIB, Jack Dongarra Tom Rowan Reed Wade, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 21, No. 1, 79-88, March 1995. Click here for the postscript version.
The Spectral Decomposition of Nonsymmetric Matrices on Distributed Memory Parallel Computers, Z. Bai, J. Demmel, J. Dongarra, A. Petitet, H. Robinson, and K. Stanley, University of Tennessee Technical Report CS-95-273, January 1995. Click here for the postscript version.
An Introduction to the MPI Standard, Jack Dongarra, Steve W. Otto, Marc Snir, and David Walker, University of Tennessee Technical Report CS-95-274, January 1995, (to appear CACM). Click here for the postscript version.
National HPCC Software Exchange , Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Stan Green, Keith Moore, Tom Rowan, Reed Wade, Geoffrey Fox, Ken Hawick, Ken Kennedy, Jim Pool, Rick Stevens, Bob Olsen, and Terry Disz IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1995, pp. 62--69. Click here for the postscript version.
Location-Independent Naming for Virtual Distributed Software Repositories , Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Stan Green, Eric Grosse, Keith Moore Theresa Pepin, Tom Rowan, and Reed Wade, ACM-SIGSOFT 1995 Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR'95), April 28-30, 1995, Seattle. Click here for the postscript version.
Digital Software and Data Repositories for Support of Scientific Computing, Ronald Boisvert, Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, and Eric Grosse, A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (DL'95), May 15-19, 1995, McLean VA. Click here for the postscript version.
ScaLAPACK: A Portable Linear Algebra Library for Distributed Memory Computers - Design Issues and Performance J. Choi, J. Demmel, I. Dhillon, J. Dongarra, S. Ostrouchov, A. Petitet, K. Stanley, D. Walker, and R. C. Whaley, LAPACK Working Note #95, March 1995. Click here for the postscript version.
Management of the NHSE - A Virtual Distributed Digital Library , The Second International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey C. Fox, Ken Hawick, Ken Kennedy, Rick Stevens, Robert Olson, Tom Rowan, June 11-13, 1995, Austin, TX. Click here for the postscript version.
Algorithm-Based Diskless Checkpointing for Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations, James S. Plank, Youngbae Kim, and Jack Dongarra, 25th International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Pasadena, CA, June, 1995. Click here for the postscript version.
Management of the NHSE - A Virtual Distributed Digital Library, The Second International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Ken Kennedy, Tom Rowan, June 11-13, 1995, Austin, TX. Click here for the postscript version.
Message-Passing Performance of Various Computers, Jack Dongarra and Tom Dunigan, University of Tennessee Technical Report CS-95-299, July 1995, Click here for the postscript version.
Overview of VPE: A Visual Environment for Message-Passing, Peter Newton and Jack Dongarra, Hetergoneous Computing Workshop '95, Proceedings of the 4th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop, Santa Barbara, CA, April 25, 1995.
A Proposal for a Set of Parallel Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms, J. Choi, J. Dongarra, S. Ostrouchov, A. Petitet, D. Walker, and R. Whaley, LAPACK Working Note #100, UT, CS-95-292, May 1995, Click here for the postscript version.
Top500 Report, Jack Dongarra, Hans Meuer, and Erich Strohmaier, June 1995 most recent. Click here for the postscript version.
The Performance of PVM on MPP Systems, Henri Casanova, Jack Dongarra, and Weicheng Jiang, University of Tennessee Technical Report CS-95-301, August 1995, Click here for the postscript version.
The Netlib Mathematical Software Repository , Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Eric Grosse Tom Rowan, D-Lib Magazine, September 1995.
Software Libraries for Linear Algebra Computations on High Performance Computers, J. Dongarra and D. Walker, SIAM Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, June 1995, Click here for the postscript version. High Performance Computing in the U.S. in 1995 -- An Analysis on the Basis of the TOP500 List , Jack Dongarra and Horst D. Simon, University of Tennessee, CS-96-318, January 1996. Click here for the postscript version.
NetSolve: A Network Server for Solving Computational Science Problems, , Henri Casanova and Jack Dongarra. University of Tennessee Technical Report CS-95-313, November 1995.
Distributed Information Management in the National HPCC Software Exchange, Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey C. Fox, Ken Hawick, Ken Kennedy, Rick Stevens, Robert Olson, and Tom Rowan, Supercomputer '95, San Deigo, CA.
Templates for Linear Algebra Problems, Zhaojun Bai, David Day, James Demmel, Jack Dongarra, Ming Gu, Axel Ruhe, and Henk van der Vorst, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1000, Springer-Verlag, 1996. Click here for the postscript version.
The Dangers of Heterogeneous Network Computing: Heterogeneous Networks Considered Harmful, , Jim Demmel, Jack Dongarra, Sven Hammarling, Susan Ostrouchov, and Ken Stanley, March, 1996.
Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations for Networks of Workstations Using Diskless Checkpointing,, James S. Plank, Youngbae Kim, and Jack Dongarra, Feburary, 1996.