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

Read about the awardee on the IEEE-CS website

• Dr. Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory
• Watch the award presentation on YouTube

ACM Gordon Bell Prize

Pushing the Limit of Molecular Dynamics with Ab Initio Accuracy to 100 Million Atoms with Machine Learning

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

Memory-Centric 3D Image Reconstruction with Hierarchical Communications on Multi-GPU Node Architecture

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

Read about the awardees on the SIGHPC website

• 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

Read about the awardees on the ACM website

• 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