Nominations for 2011 Cray, Fernbach, Kennedy, and Michael Awards Due in July
Awards Highlight Leaders in High Performance Computing Community
Seattle, WA – June 1, 2011 - 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 at
https://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.
About SC11
SC11, sponsored by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the IEEE
Computer Society, offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to
showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis
lead to advances in scientific discovery, research, education and commerce. This premier
international conference includes a globally attended technical program, workshops,
tutorials, a world class exhibit area, demonstrations and opportunities for hands-on
learning. For more information on SC11, please visit: http://sc11.supercomputing.org/.
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