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ISC2004, the International Supercomputer Conference now in its 19th year, has announced the recipients of the first-ever ISC Award sponsored by AMD. ISC2004 will be held June 22-25 in Heidelberg. The leading event in supercomputing in Europe, ISC is a premier venue for gaining an international perspective on the field of HPC. Combining a strong lineup of technical experts with exhibits from leading hardware and software vendors and supercomputing centers, the theme of ISC2004 is “Applications, Architectures, Trends.” New to this year’s conference is the ISC Award, established by AMD, ISC2004's main sponsor, to promote and reward innovative supercomputing researchers who have distinguished themselves through state-of-the-art projects in HPC systems software, innovative supercomputer architectures; and integrated data and information management. The recipients of the 2004 ISC Award are: Graham E. Fagg and Edgar Gabriel, both of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; Wu-chun Feng, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA; and Stephen M. Pickles, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. “The committee had to choose from a number of high quality papers submitted from institutions worldwide and we believe the three winning papers will open new views on high performance computing and thus add another dimension to the breadth of the conference program,” said Award Committee Chair Michael Resch of the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center in Germany. The winners will present their paper as part of the technical program of ISC2004. Fagg and Gabriel will discuss “Extending the MPI Specification for Process Fault Tolerance on High Performance Computing Systems” Feng will present “Green Destiny and its Evolving Parts.” Pickles will give a talk on “The TeraGyroid Experiment.” The three winners will be awarded a two-way rack mountable system, fully configured as a building block for a cluster, built with state-of-the-art technology from AMD in June 2004. “We are extremely grateful to AMD for sponsoring the inaugural ISC Awards and for their overall support of the 2004 conference,” said Conference Chairman Prof. Hans Werner Meuer of the University of Mannheim. “This award is something of a revival of the “Mannheim SuParCup” prize awarded five times by the conference in the 1990s. Though the award is different, the goal in both instances is to recognize and promote innovative ideas in high-performance computing.” More information on their presentations and the overall conference program can be found on the ISC2004 Web site at http://www.isc2004.org. The annual conference is held in Heidelberg, the home of Germany’s oldest university as well as a thriving modern research community.