Congratulations to the SC, ACM, and IEEE-CS Awardees for SC20
During the SC20 Awards Ceremony, held virtually on Thursday, November 19, 2020, the SC Awards and selected ACM and IEEE-CS awards were presented. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees!
Society Awards
ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award
Read about the awardee on the ACM website
- Dr. Vivek Sarkar, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Watch the award presentation on YouTube
IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award
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- Dr. Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory
- Watch the award presentation on YouTube
ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Weile Jia, University of California, Berkeley; Han Wang, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (Beijing, China); Mohan Chen, Peking University; Denghui Lu, Peking University; Lin Lin, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Roberto Car, Princeton University; Weinan E, Princeton University; Linfeng Zhang, Princeton University
ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research
AI-Driven Multiscale Simulations Illuminate Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Dynamics
Rommie Amaro, University of California, San Diego; Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Laboratory; Tom Gibbs, NVIDIA; John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jim Phillips, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Lillian Chong, University of Pittsburgh; Lorenzo Casalino, University of California, San Diego; Abigail Dommer, University of California, San Diego; David Hardy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julio Maia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Thorsten Kurth, NVIDIA; Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University
ACM Student Research Competition (Undergraduate)
First Place
Enabling Graph-Based Profiling Analysis Using Hatchet
Ian D. Lumsden, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Second Place
Recovering Silent Data Corruption Through Spatial Prediction
Sarah A. Placke, Clemson University
Third Place
A Framework for Linking Urban Traffic and Vehicle Emissions in Smart Cities
Clark Hathaway, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Sebastian Mobo, University of Tennessee Knoxville
ACM Student Research Competition (Graduate)
First Place
Mert Hidayetoglu, University of Illinois
Second Place
Communication-Avoiding Large Graph Algorithms for Flow Modeling
Richard Barnes, University of California Berkeley
Third Place
Optimizing Vector Particle-In-Cell (VPIC) for Memory Constrained Systems Using Half-Precision
Nigel P. Tan, University of Tennesse Knoxville
ACM SIGHPC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Read about the awardee on the SIGHPC website
- Dr. Patrick Flick, Georgia Institute of Technology
ACM SIGHPC Fellowships in Computational and Data Science
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- Rachael Aber (PhD, Integrative Biology), Oregon State University
- Clint Cuffy (PhD, Computer Science), Virginia Commonwealth University
- Katherine Cyr (MS, Biostatics), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Emily Elhacham (PhD, Geoscience), Tel Aviv University
- Giulia Guidi (PhD, Computer Science), University of California, Berkeley
- Caitlin Harrigan (PhD, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology), University of Toronto
- Ciara Horne (PhD, Systems Engineering), University of Virginia
- Robert Kravec (MS, Statistics), Duke University
- Kevin McIver (PhD, Mechanical Engineering), Purdue University
- Mira Nencheva (PhD, Psychology), Princeton University
- Ashley Schwartz (PhD, Computational Science), San Diego State University
- Pranjal Vaidya (PhD, Biomedical Engineering), Case Western Reserve University
ACM SIGHPC Certificate of Appreciation
Presented to the authors of the SC19 paper selected for the SC20 Student Cluster Competition Reproducibility Initiative.
MemXCT: Memory-Centric X-Ray CT Reconstruction with Massive Parallelization
Mert Hidayetoglu, University of Illinois; Tekin Bicer, Argonne National Laboratory; Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, University of Illinois; Bin Ren, College of William & Mary; Doga Gursoy, Argonne National Laboratory; Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory; Ian T. Foster, Argonne National Laboratory; Wen-Mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois
ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
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- Kazem Chesmi, University of Toronto
- Madhurima Vardhan, Duke University
- Keren Zhou, Rice University
IEEE-CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing
Read about the awardees on the TCHPC website
- Dr. Catherine Schuman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Dr. Dingwen Tao, Washington State University
- Dr. Pedro Valero-Lara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
SC Awards
SC Test of Time Award
An Overview of the BlueGene/L Supercomputer (published at SC02)
The BlueGene/L Team (114 authors), accepted by Jose Moreira and Jeffrey S. Vetter
SC Best Paper Award
Petascale XCT: 3D Image Reconstruction with Hierarchical Communications on Multi-GPU Nodes
Mert Hidayetoglu, University of Illinois; Tekin Bicer, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC); Bin Ren, College of William & Mary; Vincent De Andrade, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Doga Gursoy, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Ian T. Foster, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois
SC Best Poster Award
Quantum Circuit Optimization with SPIRAL: A First Look
Scott Mionis, Franz Franchetti, Jason Larkin; Carnegie Mellon University
SC Best Visualization Award
The Diurnal Beating of the Amazonian Hydroclimate
David Bock, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois; Jorge Eiras-Barca, University of Illinois; Zhao Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
SC Best Student Paper Award
Scalable yet Rigorous Floating-Point Error Analysis
Arnab Das, University of Utah; Ian Briggs, University of Utah; Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah; Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Washington State University; Pavel Panchekha, University of Utah
SC Virtual Student Cluster Competition Awards
Highest Linpack Benchmark and Overall Winner
Tsinghua University, China
- Students: Chen Zhang, Jiajie Chen, Yutian Wang, Runxin Zhong, Mingshu Zhai, Zeyu Song
- Advisors: Jidong Zhai, Wentao Han, Lin Gan
Jim Brandt, SC20 Awards Chair