Professor Torsten Hoefler won the 2024 ACM Prize for advancing supercomputer performance in AI.

Professor Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich won the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing for his work in high-performance computing and AI. The $250,000 prize recognizes his significant impact on scaling network design and programming in supercomputers, improving their performance and scalability. His contributions include advancements in the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and network routing protocols, which have accelerated AI workloads by up to 1000 times.