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Awards Highlight Leaders in High Performance Computing Community

Nominations for the 2011 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering, the Sidney Fernbach Memorial, the Ken Kennedy, and the George Michael awards are now being accepted through July and August.  The SC11 awards ceremony will take place during the international high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis conference, which is expected to bring as many as 11,000 attendees from academia, industry and government to the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle.

IEEE Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award

Established in 1997, the IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award recognizes innovative contributions to high performance computing systems that best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray. One of HPC’s most prestigious awards, winners will receive an illuminated certificate and a $10,000 honorarium at a special awards session during the conference. Past winners have included notables such as Kenichi Miura, Steve Wallach, Bill Dally, and John Hennessy.  Alan Gara, chief system architect for the three generations of Blue Gene supercomputers, was the SC10 recipient for his “innovations in low power, densely packaged supercomputing systems."

Nominations are due July 1, 2011, and the nomination form is available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seymourcray.

IEEE Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award

The IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award was established in 1992 in honor of Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and application of high performance computers for the solution of large computational problems.  A certificate and $2,000 are awarded for innovative contributions in the application of high performance computers.

Past winners have included William D. Gropp, Edward Seidel, and Jack J. Dongarra.   James W. Demmel, a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, received the 2010 IEEE Computer Society’s Sidney Fernbach Award for computational science leadership in creating adaptive, innovative, high-performance linear algebra software." 

Nominations must be received by July 1, 2011 and the nominations can be submitted at http://awards.computer.org/ana/award/view.action?id=16 .

ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

The ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award, established in 2009, is presented for outstanding contributions to programmability or productivity in computing, together with significant community service or mentoring contributions. Awardees are presented with a certificate and a $5,000 honorarium presented at the conference. Last year’s award went to David Kuck, an Intel Fellow, for advances to compiler technology and parallel computing that have improved the cost-effectiveness of multiprocessor computing.

Nominations close on Friday, July 22, 2011, and nominations, including two to three endorsements, may be made at the SC11 submission site athttps://submissions.supercomputing.org/.

George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowship

In memory of George Michael, one of the founding fathers of the SC Conference series, this award honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world whose focus areas are on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. Sponsored by ACM, IEEE Computer Society and the SC Conference, this award will be presented during a special session at the conference.

Submissions are due on Thursday, July 14, 2011.  To reference a sample HPC Fellowship submission form and to apply, please visit the SC11 submissions site at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/.

For more information on any of these awards, please visit http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=awards.html.  Questions may be directed to:awards@info.supercomputing.org.