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December 05, 2008

HPC Project Winners Announced at Rusnanotech

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Dec. 5 -- A ceremony of awarding the winners of high-performance computing project contest held by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) and Intel took place today. The contest was aimed at fostering the teams of scientists using the supercomputing power in their work.

The ceremony was carried out in the framework of the Nanotechnology International Forum at the Central Exhibition Complex "Expocenter." The criteria of evaluation the projects submitted to the panel of judges were using the high-performance supercomputers for scientific needs, adequacy of the level of tasks being set to the high-performance computing capacity, paralleling efficiency and scaling ability, absolute performance required to achieve the desired results, ingenuity and complexity of application implementation.

The projects had been accepted for contest until Nov. 10. The works of 33 teams were accepted from Moscow and Moscow Region, Saint-Petersburg, Volgograd, Vladivostok, Kazan, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Yaroslavl (Russia), Lugansk and Kharkov (Ukraine), and other cities.

The panel of judges consisted of 12 representatives of research institutes and universities. The judges decided to award winners with five prizes.

"The Intel Corporation is well used to popularizing the IT-industry. We hold various contests between students, young scientists and IT-professionals on a regular basis, which promote the high technologies in Russia and other CIS countries," noted Dmitry Konash, regional director of Intel Russia & CIS. "By arranging the contest of projects in the field of high-performance computing we planned to discover the scientific teams which are able to realize effectively the potential of newest supercomputers. The panel of judges received 33 works and each one of them is worth to be represented on the international level. We consider the contest successfully completed with outstanding results. The Intel Corporation in Russia and CIS plans to hold such competitions each year."

"Successful usage of the exact numerical calculations is a key tool which will allow our scientists, engineers and industrialists to earn an appropriate place on the market of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies," said Alexander Losyukov, RUSNANO deputy director general. "Due to the complexity of nanostructures all serious works require preliminary modeling and computations to evaluate the perspectives of practical implementation on further stages of the way down to mass production. We welcome the teams intensively using computational methods in their work and hope that more such crews will cooperate with our Corporation in future."

"No valuable results can be expected without high-performance computing in many fields of modern science. It's especially important in physics, chemistry, astronomy and nanotechnology -- disciplines requiring in the first place processing of huge amounts of information within the multi-criteria models with unobvious cross coupling," outlined Boris Chetverushkin, director of Institute of Mathematical Modelling of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). "It wasn't an easy task to select the winners of the contest. We are glad that Russian specialists can be proud of themselves in this case -- both in Russia and worldwide."

Contest results

The first prize in the amount of 250 thousand rubles, was given to the work "FPIC3D -- parallel code for modeling the processes of ion beams interaction with solid-state matter," submitted to the contest by Igor Lomonosov, professor of the Institute of Chemistry Physics Problems of RAS (Chernogolovka, Moscow Region). D.A. Grigoriev, V.V. Kim, A.V. Matveichev, A.V. Ostrik, V.G. Sultanov, A.V. Shutov also took part in the project.

Four more works were awarded special prizes:

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