Celebrate This Year’s SC and Society Awardees by Watching the SC21 Awards Ceremony
During the SC21 Awards Ceremony, held on Thursday, November 18, 2021 in St. Louis, the SC Awards and selected ACM and IEEE awards were presented. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees!
Society Awards
ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award
David Abramson, University of Queensland
IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award
David A. Bader, New Jersey Institute of Technology
ACM Gordon Bell Prize
Yong (Alexander) Liu, Xin (Lucy) Liu, Fang (Nancy) Li, Yuling Yang, Jiawei Song, Pengpeng Zhao, Zhen Wang, Dajia Peng, and Huarong Chen of Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou and the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi; Haohuan Fu and Dexun Chen of Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi; Wenzhao Wu of the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi; and Heliang Huang and Chu Guo of the Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences.
ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research
Kazuto Ando, Rahul Bale, and Keiji Onishi, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Japan); ChungGang Li and Makoto Tsubokura, RIKEN Center for Computational Science and Kobe University (Japan); and Satoshi Matsuoka, RIKEN Center for Computational Science and Tokyo Institute of Technology
ACM Student Research Competition (Graduate)
First Place
Connor Scully-Allison, University of Arizona
Second Place
Parallel Algorithms and Generalized Frameworks for Learning Large-Scale Bayesian Networks
Ankit Srivastava, Georgia Institute of Technology
Third Place
cuSZ(+): Optimizing Error-Bounded Lossy Compression for Scientific Data on Modern GPUs
Jiannan Tian, Washington State University
ACM Student Research Competition (Undergraduate)
First Place
Datastore Design for Analysis of Police Broadcast Audio at Scale
Ayah Ahmad, University of Chicago
Second Place
Delving Into the Abyss: A Distributed Decompression System for Indexing Compressed Repositories
Ryan Wong, Northwestern University
Third Place
Regulating Traffic in a Crowded Cache: Overcoming the Container Explosion Problem
Kevin Gao, University of California, Berkeley
ACM SIGHPC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Exascalable Communication for Modern Supercomputing
Dr. Rohit Zambre, University of California, Irvine
ACM SIGHPC Fellowships in Computational & Data Science
Read about the awardees on the SIGHPC website
Osahon Asowata (PhD, Biostatistics), College of Medicine, University of Ibadan
Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani (PhD, Computer Science), Mississippi State University
Kiana Burton (PhD, Astrophysics and Planetary Science), University of Colorado Boulder
Monique Hooley (MS, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), University of California, Berkeley
Chinenye Ifebirinachi (PhD, Data Science & Analytics), North Carolina A&T State University
Daniela Markazi (PhD, Informatics), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ismael Mendoza (double PhD, Physics & Scientific Computing), University of Michigan
Lauren Oey (PhD, Psychology and Computational Social Science), University of California, San Diego
Ana-Arina Raileanu (MS, Data Science), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Harry Reyes (PhD, Biomedical Informatics), Columbia University
Tanya Tafolla (PhD, Applied Mathematics), University of California, Merced
ACM SIGHPC Certificate of Appreciation
Presented to the authors of the SC20 paper selected for the SC21 Student Cluster Competition Reproducibility Challenge
A Parallel Framework for Constraint-Based Bayesian Network Learning via Markov Blanket Discovery
Ankit Srivastava, Sriram P. Chockalingam, and Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology
ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
Read about the awardees on the ACM website
Mert Hidayetoglu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tirthak Patel, Northeastern University
IEEE-CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing
Read about the awardees on the TCHPC website
Dr. Bing Xie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Yang You, National Unversity of Singapore
Dr. Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University
SC Awards
Test of Time Award
Multilevel Algorithms for Multi-Constraint Graph Partitioning (published at SC98)
George Karypis and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Best Paper
Revealing Power, Energy and Thermal Dynamics of a 200PF Pre-Exascale Supercomputer
Woong Shin, Vladyslav Oles, Ahmad Maroof Karimi, J. Austin Ellis, Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Best Reproducibility Advancement
HPAC: Evaluating Approximate Computing Techniques on HPC OpenMP Applications
Konstantinos Parasyris, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Harshitha Menon, James Diffenderfer, Ignacio Laguna, Daniel Osei-Kuffuor, Markus Schordan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Best Poster
Enabling Combustion Science Simulations for Future Exascale Machines
Jon S. Rood, Marc T. Henry de Frahan, Marc S. Day, Hariswaran Sitaraman, Shashank Yellapantula, Bruce A. Perry, Ray Grout, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Ann Almgren, Weiqun Zhang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jackie H. Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
Best Visualization
Putting the Ocean into the Center: A Coupled ICON Atmosphere/Ocean Simulation in Spilhaus Projection
Niklas Röber, Michael Böttinger, Florian Ziemen, German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ); Monika Esch, Helmuth Haak, Cathy Hohenegger, Daniel Klocke, Peter Korn, Leonidas Linadarkis, Rene Redler, Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology; Thorsten Mauritsen, Stockholm University; Carson Brownlee, Johannes Günther, Jim Jeffers, Intel Corporation
Best Student Paper
Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM
Deepak Narayanan, Stanford University; Mohammad Shoeybi, Jared Casper, Patrick LeGresley, Mostofa Patwary, Vijay Anand Korthikanti, Dmitri Vainbrand, Prethvi Kashinkunti, Julie Bernauer, Bryan Catanzaro, NVIDIA Corporation; Amar Phanishayee, Microsoft Research; Matei Zaharia, Stanford University
Student Cluster Competition
Highest Linpack Benchmark
Tongzhou Gu, Yiqi Zhang, Tong Yuan, Botian Xu, Yingwei Zheng, Bingzhen Wang (Students); Jing Fan (Advisor); Southern University of Science and Technology
Overall Winner
Mingshu Zhai, Zeyu Song, Kaiyuan Rong, Yanyu Ren, Yuxi Zhu, Juncheng Cao (Students); Jidong Zhai (Advisor); Tsinghua University
Elizabeth Jessup, SC21 Awards Chair