Sadly he's not some kind of local hero. The area much prefers sports to academics. I studied CS there for undergrad and knew of him but rarely heard his name mentioned or celebrated.
I mean, if you asked random passersby in Stanford (my alma mater) about Donald Knuth, 4 out of 5 wouldn’t have heard of him. Or 9 out of 10, more pessimistically. Approximately nowhere are academics hailed as local heroes.
Also, well deserved. I still recall the one talk by Jack Dongarra I ever saw. He threw out there that the iPad 2 had (at the time) the highest performance-per-watt CPU in the world. I’ve waited for the «apple M1 moment» since then - and now, suddenly… fantastic talk covering the whole HPC topic!