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November 24, 2008

HPC Research and Achievements Awards Presented at SC08

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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 24 -- SC08, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis wrapped up a record-setting event on Friday, Nov. 21, following the recognition of achievements by a number of attendees.

Among the honors presented during the conference were the Seymour Cray Award, the Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, ACM Gordon Bell Prizes, ACM/IEEE Computer Society HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Award, several competitive challenges, best paper and best poster awards.

This year's conference, held at the Austin Convention Center, set all-time attendance and exhibitor records, with total registration exceeding 11,000 and 337 exhibitors filling all the exhibit halls in the convention center. The event marked the 20th anniversary of the first SC conference.

"This has been a truly amazing week in Austin, from the record attendance, the most ever exhibitors and a very impressive set of activities celebrating our 20th anniversary," said SC08 General Chair Patricia Teller. "To everyone who has spent the past three years planning SC08 and to everyone who joined us in Austin, I extend heartfelt thanks for helping make this year's event such a success."

The following individuals and organizations were recognized with awards:

Steven Wallach, founder of Convey Computer, was presented with the Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award for his "contribution to high-performance computing through design of innovative vector and parallel computing systems, notably the Convex mini-supercomputer series, a distinguished industrial career and acts of public service."

The IEEE Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award was presented to William Gropp of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for his major role in creating the MPI, the standard interprocessor communication interface for large-scale parallel computers.

ACM Gordon Bell Prize

The ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Peak Performance was awarded to the team of Gonzalo Alvarez, Michael S. Summers, Don E. Maxwell, Markus Eisenbach, Jeremy S. Meredith, Thomas A. Maier, Paul R. Kent, Eduardo D'Azevedo and Thomas C. Schulthess (all of Oak Ridge National Laboratory), and Jeffrey M. Larkin and John M. Levesque (both of Cray, Inc.) for their entry, "New Algorithm to Enable 400+ TFlop/s Sustained Performance in Simulations of Disorder Effects in High-Tc."

The ACM Gordon Bell Prize in a special recognition for algorithmic innovation was presented to Lin-Wang Wang, Byounghak Lee, Hongzhang Shan, Zhengji Zhao, Juan Meza, Erich Strohmaier and David Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for their work in "Linear Scaling Divide-and-Conquer Electronic Structure Calculations for Thousand Atom Nanostructures."

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