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April 21, 2011

PRACE Award Winner for 2011 Announced

April 20 -- The PRACE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) selected the winner of the PRACE Award in 2011. The Award will be presented at the Opening Session of ISC'11 (International Supercomputing Conference) in Hamburg.

All papers that were submitted to ISC'11 Research Paper Sessions were reviewed by the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee. This year's PRACE Award goes to the paper titled "Astrophysical Particle Simulations with Large Custom GPU Clusters on Three Continents" signed by a group of authors: R. Spurzem, P. Berczik, T. Hamada, K. Nitadori, G. Marcus, A. Kugel, R. Manner, I. Berentzen, J. Fiestas, R. Banerjee and R. Klessen.

"This paper is an excellent example of what can be achieved through international and interdisciplinary collaboration to exploit new HPC technologies," says Prof. Richard Kenway, chairman of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee.

"Astrophysicists and computer scientists in Germany and China demonstrate nearly linear strong scaling on up to 170 GPUs at a third of peak performance for large-scale simulations of dense star clusters using machines in Europe, China and the USA. The work points the way to exploit exascale technologies for problems at the forefront of science," Kenway continues.

The PRACE award will be presented to Peter Berczick and Guillermo Marcus during the ISC'11 Opening Session on Monday, June 20, starting at 9:30 a.m. The winner will receive sponsorship for participation in a training event or a conference relevant to petascale computing.

The results of the work will be presented during the Research Paper Session 1 on Monday, June 20 at 2:30 pm – 3:00 p.m. in the Hall C2.1.

More information at http://www.supercomp.de/isc11/Program/At-a-Glance/Awards

About PRACE

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international nonprofit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI) provides a persistent world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry. The PRACE leadership systems form the apex of the performance pyramid and are well integrated into the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE receives funding from the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° RI-261557.

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Source: PRACE

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