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November 24, 2006

SC06 Award Wrap-Up at SC06

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SC06, the international conference of high performance computing, networking, data storage and analysis, presented awards last week for the best paper, best student paper, best research poster, and several competitive challenges.

This year's conference was the second largest since the meeting was first held in 1988, with more than 7,100 badged attendees filling the Tampa Convention Center. The conference exhibition featured 274 exhibitors filling all available floor space in the 200,000-square foot hall.

"Our expectations have been exceeded in every aspect of our week in Tampa, from the conference attendance and exhibits to the warmth and friendliness of Tampa," said SC06 General Chair Barbara Horner-Miller. "The success of the conference reflects the efforts of our volunteer committee members, our dedicated exhibitors, those who submitted their research to the technical program and the professional staff of the convention center. Thank you all."

Here is a list of the winners announced Thursday:

Best Paper: "Scalable Algorithms for Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Commodity Clusters," by Kevin J. Bowers, Edmond Chow, Huafeng Xu, Ron O. Dror, Michael P. Eastwood, Brent A. Gregerson, John L. Klepeis, Istvan Kolossvary, Mark A. Moraes, Federico D. Sacerdoti, John K. Salmon, Yibing Shan, and David E. Shaw, all of D. E. Shaw Research.

Best Student Paper: "The Design Space of Data-Parallel Memory Systems," Jung Ho Ahn, Mattan Erez and William J. Dally (advisor), Stanford University.

Best Poster: "IANUS: Scientific Computing on an FPGA-Based Architecture," Mantovani Filippo, University of Ferrara, Italy.

The Gordon Bell Prize for Peak Performance was awarded to the "Large-Scale Electronic Structure Calculations of High-Z Metals on the BlueGene/L Platform" team of Francois Gygi, University of California, Davis;

Erik W. Draeger, Martin Schulz and Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; John A. Gunnels, Vernon Austel and James C. Sexton, IBM; Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University; and Stefan Kral, Christoph W. Ueberhuber and Juergen Lorenz, Vienna University of Technology.

A Gordon Bell Prize for Special Achievement was awarded to "The BlueGene/L Supercomputer and Quantum Chromodynamics" project team of Pavlos Vranas, Gyan Bhanot, Matthias Blumrich, Dong Chen, Alan Gara, Philip Heidelberger, Valentina Salapura, and James C. Sexton, IBM Research; and Ron Soltz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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