Congratulations to All of This Year’s SC and Society Awardees
During the SC22 Awards Ceremony, held on Thursday, November 17, 2021 in Dallas, the SC Awards and selected ACM and IEEE awards were presented. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees!
Watch the Awards Ceremony on YouTube
Society Awards
ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award
Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
Read about the awardees on the ACM website
Marcin Copik, ETH Zürich
Masado Alexander Ishii, University of Utah
Shelby Lockhart, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Honorable Mention)
IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award
IEEE-CS Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Satoshi Matsuoka, Riken Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)
ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Luca Fedeli, France Boillod-Cerneaux, Thomas Clark, Neil Zaїm, and Henri Vincenti, (CEA); Axel Huebl, Kevin Gott, Remi Lehe, Andrew Myers, Weiqun Zhang, and Jean-Luc Vay, (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Conrad Hillairet, (Arm); Stephan Jaure, (ATOS); Adrien Leblanc, (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, ENSTA Paris); Christelle Piechurski, (GENCI); Mitsuhisa Sato, (RIKEN)
ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research
GenSLMs: Genome-Scale Language Models Reveal SARS-CoV-2 Evolutionary Dynamics
Maxim Zvyagin, Alexander Brace, Kyle Hippe, Yuntian Deng, Bin Zhang, Cindy Orozco Bohorquez, Austin Clyde, Bharat Kale, Danilo Perez-Rivera, Heng Ma, Carla M. Mann, Michael Irvin, J. Gregory Pauloski, Logan Ward, Valerie Hayot, Murali Emani, Sam Foreman, Zhen Xie, Diangen Lin, Maulik Shukla, Weili Nie, Josh Romero, Christian Dallago, Arash Vahdat, Chaowei Xiao, Thomas Gibbs, Ian Foster, James J. Davis, Michael E. Papka, Thomas Brettin, Rick Stevens, Anima Anandkumar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Arvind Ramanathan (University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, NVIDIA, Cerebras Systems, Northern Illinois University, Arizona State University)
ACM Student Research Competition (Graduate)
First Place
Software Resource Disaggregation for HPC with Serverless Computing
Marcin Copik, ETH Zürich
Second Place
Compressing Quantum Circuit Simulation Tensor Data
Milan Shah, North Carolina State UniversityArgonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Third Place
Analysis of Validating and Verifying OpenACC Compilers 3.0 and Above
Aaron M. Jarmusch, University of Delaware
ACM Student Research Competition (Undergraduate)
First Place
Statistical Prediction of Lossy Compression Ratios for 3D Scientific Data
David Krasowska, Clemson University
Second Place
Predicting Scientific Data Popularity Using dCache Logs
Julian Bellavita, University of California, Berkeley
Third Place
Analysis of Validating and Verifying OpenACC Compilers 3.0 and Above
Aaron M. Jarmusch, University of Delaware; Aaron Liu, University of Delaware
ACM SIGHPC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Enabling High-Performance Large-Scale Irregular Computations
Dr. Maciej Besta, ETH Zürich
ACM SIGHPC Fellowships in Computational & Data Science
Read about the awardees on the SIGHPC website
Tassallah Abdullahi (PhD, NLP/Information Retrieval), Brown University
Jennifer Briggs (PhD, Bioengineering and Biomedical Informatics), University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Navona Calarco (PhD, Medical Biophysics), University of Toronto
Leslie Cook (Master’s, Computer Science), Midwestern State University
Draga Doncila Pop (PhD, IT), Monash University
Alexis Garretson (PhD, Genetics), Tufts University
Tobias Holden (PhD, Health & Biomedical Informatics), Northwestern University
Hellina Nigatu (PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences), University of California, Berkeley
Sonal Sannigrahi (Master’s, Computational Linguistics), Saarland University
Ana Veroneze Solórzano (PhD, Computer Engineering), Northeastern University
Nicole Tomassi (PhD, Computational Neuroscience), Boston University
ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award (2021)
ACM SIGHPC Certificate of Appreciation
Presented to the authors of the SC21 paper selected for the SC22 Student Cluster Competition Reproducibility Challenge
Productivity, Portability, Performance: Data-Centric Python
Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, Timo Schneider, Tal Ben-Nun, Alexandru Calotoiu, Tiziano De Matteis, Johannes de Fine Licht, Luca Lavarini, Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zürich)
ACM SIGHPC Educational Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computational Science Education
IEEE-CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing
Read about the awardees on the TCHPC website
Yue Cheng, University of Virginia
Hang Liu, Stevens Institute of Technology
Elliott Slaughter, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SC Awards
Test of Time Award
A Power-Aware Run-Time System for High-Performance Computing (Published at SC05)
Chung-hsing Hsu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Wuchun Feng, Virginia Tech
Best Paper
ProbGraph: High-Performance and High-Accuracy Graph Mining with Probabilistic Set Representations
Maciej Besta, ETH Zürich; Cesare Miglioli, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Paolo Sylos Labini, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy; Jakub Tětek, University of Copenhagen; Patrick Iff, ETH Zürich; Raghavendra Kanakagiri, University of Illinois; Saleh Ashkboos, ETH Zürich; Kacper Janda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland; Michal Podstawski, Warsaw University of Technology; Grzegorz Kwasniewski, ETH Zürich; Niels Gleinig, ETH Zürich; Flavio Vella, University of Trento, Italy; Onur Mutlu, ETH Zürich; Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich
Best Reproducibility Advancement
HammingMesh: A Network Topology for Large-Scale Deep Learning
Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich, Microsoft Corporation; Tommaso Bonato, ETH Zürich; Daniele De Sensi, ETH Zürich; Salvatore Di Girolamo, ETH Zürich; Shigang Li, ETH Zürich; Marco Heddes, Microsoft Corporation; Jon Belk, Microsoft Corporation; Deepak Goel, Microsoft Corporation; Miguel Castro, Microsoft Corporation; Steve Scott, Microsoft Corporation
Best Research Poster
Toward Scalable Voxelization of Meshes with High Growth Rate
Markéta Hrabánková, Ondřej Meca, Tomáš Brzobohatý, Lubomír Říha, Milan Jaroš, Petr Strakoš; IT4Innovations, Czech Republic, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Best Visualization
Virtual Certification of Gas Turbine Engines – Visualizing the DLR Rig250 Compressor
Arun Prabhakar, University of Warwick; Christopher Goddard, Rolls-Royce; Dario Amirante, University of Surrey, England; Axel Gerstenberger, Rolls-Royce Deutschland; Jan-Friedrich Suhrmann, Rolls-Royce Deutschland; Istvan Reguly, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary; Leigh Lapworth, Rolls-Royce; Stephen Jarvis, University of Birmingham, UK; Gihan Mudalige, University of Warwick
Best Student Paper
Scalable Automatic Differentiation of Multiple Parallel Paradigms through Compiler Augmentation
William Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Argonne National Laboratory; Ludger Paehler, Technical University Munich; Valentin Churavy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Michel Schanen, Argonne National Laboratory; Jan Hueckelheim, Argonne National Laboratory; Johannes Doerfert, Argonne National Laboratory; Paul Hovland, Argonne National Laboratory
Student Cluster Competition
Highest Linpack Benchmark
Students: Stefanie Dao, Davit Margarian, Anish Govind, Michael Granado, Matthew Mikhailov, Yuchen Jing; University of California San Diego, United States; Advisor: Mary Thomas; University of California San Diego, United States
Overall Winner
Students: En-Ming Huang, Fu-Chiang Chang, Hsu-Tzu Ting, Pin-Yi Kuo, Pang-Ning Wu, Chan-Yu Mou; National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; Advisor: Jerry Chou; National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan