Awards

Gordon Bell Prize

The ACM Gordon Bell Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in high performance computing. The purpose of the award is to track the progress over time of parallel computing, with particular emphasis on rewarding innovation in applying high performance computing to applications in science, engineering, and large-scale data analytics.

“Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials”; Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, Fiona C.Y. Yu, Calum Snowdon, Elise Palethorpe (Australian National University); Jakub Kurzak (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.); Dmytro Bykov (Oakridge National Laboratory); Giuseppe M.J. Barca (University of Melbourne)

Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling

The ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling will be awarded every year for ten years beginning in 2023 to recognize the contributions of climate scientists and software engineers. The award aims to recognize innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis.

“Boosting Earth System Model Outputs and Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators”; Sameh Abdulah, Marc G. Genton, David E. Keyes, Zubair Khalid, Hatem Ltaief, Yan Song, Greorgiy L. Stenchikov and Ying Sun (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia); Allison H. Baker (NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA); George Bosilca, (NVIDIA, USA); Qinglei Cao (St. Louis University, USA); Stefano Castruccio (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Student Research Competition

The ACM Student Research Competition is a national competition involving many ACM-sponsored conferences. Each participating conference runs its own round of the competition, with the winner proceeding to the national competition. Awards are presented to both graduate and undergraduate students at the conference level and the national level.

Undergraduate

1st Place: Jordan Pettyjohn, Colorado School of Mines

2nd Place: Delina Mekonnen, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

3rd Place: Abri Haque, University of Kansas

Graduate

1st Place: Jason Ludmir, Rice University

2nd Place: Irene Simó Muñoz, Georgia Institute of Technology

3rd Place: Abdullah Al Raqibul Islam, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

SIGHPC’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is given for the best doctoral dissertation completed in high performance computing. This award is open to students studying anywhere in the world who have completed a PhD dissertation with HPC as a central research theme.

William S. Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award

The ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWL/TC) is an annual award open to any woman who has engaged in HPC and technical computing research, education, and/or practice for 5–15 years since receiving her highest degree.

Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Fellowships in Computational and Data Science

A five-year program to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, these fellowships specifically target women or students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have not traditionally participated in the computing field. The program is open to students pursuing degrees at institutions anywhere in the world.

Jessica Dagostini, University of California, Santa Cruz

Amina Diop, University of Virginia

Educational Award For Outstanding Contribution to Computational Science Education

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to computational, data-enabled science, and HPC education and training in all disciplines.  The ACM SIGHPC Education Chapter seeks candidates who have led projects or programs that have made significant contributions to computational science education defined broadly to include all disciplines and all education levels.

Luis Felipe Coimbra Costa, Heroine’s Learning Journey

George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships

Endowed in memory of George Michael, one of the founding fathers of the SC Conference Series, the ACM IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships honor exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus areas are in high performance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis.

Ke Fan, University of Illinois at Chicago

Daniel Nichols, University of Maryland

Ken Kennedy Award

The ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award recognizes substantial contributions to programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions.

David A. Padua, University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign

Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award

The IEEE-CS Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award recognizes innovative contributions to high performance computing systems that best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray.

Norman P. Jouppi, Google Fellow

Sidney Fernbach Award

The Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award is presented annually to an individual for an outstanding contribution in the application of high-performance computers using innovative approaches.

William M. Tang, Princeton University

Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing

The award recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 1 of the year of the award.

Maciej Besta, ETH Zürich

Guanpeng Li, University of Iowa

Xin Liang, University of Kentucky

Test of Time Award

The Test of Time award recognizes a paper from a past SC conference that has deeply influenced the HPC discipline. It is a mark of historical impact, and requires clear evidence that the paper has changed HPC trends.

“GPU Cluster for High Performance Computing”; Zhe Fan, Feng Qiu, Arie Kaufman, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover (Center For Visual Computing and Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA)

Learn more about the Test of Time Award, how to make a nomination, and view past awardees.

Best Paper Award

The SC Papers Committee follows a rigorous evaluation process to identify the best paper submitted to the conference’s Technical Program. The selection is made based on a holistic assessment that considers factors such as originality and technical innovation; the potential impact on the relevant field, industry, or society at large; peer review feedback; and the overall quality of both the paper’s content (technical soundness, experimental rigor, clarity, etc.) and its presentation at the conference.

“LLAMP: Assessing Network Latency Tolerance of HPC Applications with Linear Programming”; Siyuan Shen, Langwen Huang, Marcin Chrapek, Timo Schneider (ETH Zürich); Jai Dayal, Manisha Gajbe, Samsung; Robert Wisniewski (HPE); Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zürich)

Best Student Paper Award

The SC Papers Committee follows a rigorous evaluation process to identify the best paper submitted to the conference’s Technical Program and for which the lead author is a student. The selection is made based on a holistic assessment that considers factors such as originality and technical innovation; the potential impact on the relevant field, industry, or society at large; peer review feedback; and the overall quality of both the paper’s content (technical soundness, experimental rigor, clarity, etc.) and its presentation at the conference.

“On the Efficacy of Surface Codes in Compensating for Radiation Events in Superconducting Devices”; Marzio Vallero, Gioele Casagranda, Flavio Vella, Paolo Rech (University of Trento, Italy)

Best Research Poster Award

The SC Posters Committee identifies one submission as the best poster based on scientific content, clarity of communication, innovation, significance, impact, and visual appeal.

“MIGnificient: Fast, Isolated, and GPU-Enabled Serverless Functions”; Marcin Copik (ETH Zürich); Alexandru Calotoiu (ETH Zürich); Pengy Zhou (University of Toronto); Lukas Tobler (AYES); Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zürich)

Best Reproducibility Advancement Award

The SC Best Reproducibility Advancement Award aims to recognize outstanding efforts in improving transparency and reproducibility of methods for high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis.

“KaMPIng: Flexible and (Near) Zero-Overhead C++ Bindings for MPI”; Demian Hespe (Independent); Lukas Hübner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies); Florian Kurpicz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Peter Sanders(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Matthias Schimek (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Daniel Seemaier (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Christoph Stelz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology); Tim Niklas Uhl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Student Cluster Competition Awards

SCC is an opportunity for students to showcase their expertise in a spirited competition demonstrating the breadth of skills, technologies, and science that it takes to assemble an HPC-style system, port scientific applications to it, and optimize the code for the best possible performance.

Two awards are presented: the Highest Linpack Award for the best Linpack benchmark performance and the Overall Award for the highest overall score.

Overall Winner

Tsinghua University, China

(Team) Kai Yang, Zhiyu Xue, Yifan Li, Yuqing Yang, Yucheng Wang, Chengyu Shi, (Advisor) Wentao Han

Highest Linpack Benchmark

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

(Team) Woon Yee Ng, Danxu Zhang, Natthakan Saeng-nil, Chanpaisit Nattapol, Ze Ming Chua, Bryan Guanrong Shan, (Advisor) Yuan Ren Loke