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.

“Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”

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.

“Computing the Full Earth System at 1km Resolution”

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: “Accelerating Linear Solve with Mixed Precision Nested Recursive Subdivision on AI Hardware”

2nd Place: “A Formal Characterization of Non-Monotonicity in Tensor Cores”

3rd Place: “Orchid: Towards Heterogeneous Batched Eigenvalue Solvers”

Graduate

1st Place: “Unified Performance Modeling Stack for Distributed GPU Applications: Complementing Analytical Insights with Machine Learning”

2nd Place: “Scaling Singular Values Beyond GPU Memory Limits: Out-of-Core, GPU-Accelerated, and Unified Across Data Precision and Hardware”

3rd Place: “Luthier: A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Framework Targeting AMD GPUs”

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.

Marcin Copik, ETH Zürich

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.

Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware

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.

Pershia Ashar, Duke University; Sofia Alvarez-Lopez, MIT; Carlos Escalante Vera, UCSD; Fereeda Abu-Juam, University of Pittsburgh; Janiris Rodriquez-Bueno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hadjer Labadi, University of Chlef

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.

NOMINATIONS ON EVEN NUMBERED YEARS ONLY

Nomination Information

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.

Ana Veroneze Solórzano, Northeastern University
Yafan Huang, The University of Iowa

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.

Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Instutute of Technology (MIT)

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. Recipients may be recognized for technologies that have contributed to working machine deployed at scale, which has had long-term impact valued by the HPC community.

John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

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.

Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (ISI)

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.

Rabab Alomairy, JuliaLab, MIT
Tirthak Patel, Rice University
Yuede Ji, University of Texas at Arlington

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.

William Allcock, John Bresnahan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Michael Link, Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian Foster, “The Globus Striped GridFTP Framework and Server” SC05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, p. 55, Seattle, WA, USA, doi: 10.1109/SC/2005.72

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.

“ORBIT-2: Scaling Exascale Vision Foundation Models for Weather and Climate Downscaling”, Xiao Wang, Jong-Youl Choi, Takuya Kurihaya, Isaac Lyngaas, Hong-Jun Yoon, Nasik Muhammad Nafi, Aristeidis Tsaris, Fan Ming, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Ashwin M Aji, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD); Maliha Hossain, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Mohamed Wahib, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS); Dali Wang, Peter Thornton, Moetasim Ashfaq, Prasanna Balaprakash, Dan Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

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.

“X-MoE: Enabling Scalable Training for Emerging Mixture-of-Experts Architectures on HPC Platforms”, Yueming Yuan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Ahan Gupta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jianping Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sajal Dash, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Minjia Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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.

“Time-stepping Hamiltonian Simulation for Solving Nonlinear PDEs via a Quantum-Classical Hybrid Approach”, Sangwon Kim, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS); Junya Onishi, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS); Ayato Takii, Kobe University; Younghwa Cho, Hokkaido University; Makoto Tsubokura, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)

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.

“RAPTOR: Practical Numerical Profiling of Scientific Applications”, Faveo Hoerold, ETH Zürich & RIKEN Center for Computational Science; Ivan Radanov Ivanov, Institute of Science Tokyo & RIKEN Center for Computational Science; Akash Dhruv, Argonne National Laboratory; William S. Moses, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory; Mohamed Wahib, RIKEN Center for Computational Science; Jens Domke, RIKEN Center for Computational Science

Student Cluster Competition Awards

The 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. 

The IndySCC is a virtual competition where students use provided cloud resources to optimize scientific applications and run benchmark tests, highlighting their talents and sharpening skills in cloud technologies.

Two awards are presented, one for the best-performing team in the SCC and one for the best-performing team in the IndySCC.

Student Cluster Competition: Overall Winner

National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Tso-Fei Yen, Jui-Chien Tsou, Hsuan-Chi Liu, Wei-Chin Wang, Chia-Yi Chin, Kuan-Hsun Tu (Team); Chun-Yi Lee (Advisor)

IndySCC: Overall Winner

Zhejiang University (China)
Hourong Li, Yixun Hong, JinYuan Mao, Yize Jiang, Xingxing Hao, Chenxiao Li, Chun-Yi Lee (Team); Professor Zeke Wang (Advisor)