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ISC announces receipients of ISC Award sponsored by IBM
Established in 2004, the 2005 ISC Awards recognize and reward innovative supercomputing researchers who have distinguished themselves through state-of-the-art projects in tools and techniques for code optimization on HPC systems, data management on distributed systems and grids, and high performance I/O.
All three winners will be awarded a two-way rack mountable IBM eServer OpenPower system fully configured as a building block for a cluster.
The recipients of the 2005 ISC Award are:
- Jean-Pierre Panziera and John Baron for 'A Highly Efficient Linpack Implementation Based on Shared-Memory Parallelism'. Panziera, principal engineer for Silicon Graphics Inc. in France, will discuss an efficient implementation of the classical Linpack NxN benchmark on large shared-memory systems, an approach which allowed NASA's 20x512p Columbia system to scale Linpack NxN to more than 10,000 processors with 85 percent of theoretical peak performance.
- Kenin Coloma, Alok Choudhary and Wei-keng Liao of Northwestern University; and Lee Ward and Sonja Tideman of Sandia National Laboratories for 'DAChe: Direct Access Cache System for Parallel I/O.' Coloma, a graduate student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, will describe the team’s work in maintaining consistency and coherency in client-side caching in extremely large-scale environments. Their approach to maintaining the integrity of the distributed cache turns out to be quite scalable and offers potentially sizable performance gains.
- Kesheng 'John' Wu, Junmin Gu, Arthur M. Poskanzer, Arie Shoshani, and Alexander Sim of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jerome Lauret of Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Wei-Ming Zhang of Kent State University (Ohio) for 'Grid Collector: Facilitating Efficient Selective Access from Data Grids.' Wu, a computer scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Data Management Research Group, will discuss Grid Collector, a system that facilitates the effective analysis and spontaneous exploration of scientific data by combining an efficient indexing technology with a Grid file management technology to speed up common analysis jobs on high-energy physics data and to enable some previously impractical analysis jobs.
We would like to congratulate all the winners!
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Call for Papers - ISC2005 Award sponsored by IBM
The International Supercomputer Conference, the leading supercomputing event in Europe, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2005 as the
premier venue for gaining an international perspective in the field of HPC. Combining a strong lineup of technical experts with exhibits from leading
supercomputing centers, as well as hardware and software vendors, ISC presents state-of-the-art applications, architectures and trends in supercomputing.
Goal of the Award
The ISC Award will reward and promote those people who have distinguished themselves through state-of-the-art projects in any of the three fields requiring high performance computing listed below.
Topics
Topics for which contributions are solicited:
- Tools and Techniques for Code Optimization on HPC Systems
- Data Management on Distributed Systems and Grids
- High Performance I/O
Contributions
Contributions in English are solicited. Extended abstracts of not less than four pages should be submitted in electronic form to the Chairman of the Award Committee (Michael Resch, HLRS, Germany, resch@hlrs.de) by February 21st, 2005.. Formats can be either Acrobat .pdf or Word .doc.
Abstracts should clearly describe the contents of the contribution. The relevance and originality of the contribution must be stated and important references included. The preferred topic area has to be indicated. The Award Committee will choose one contribution for each topic for an award. Winners will present their contribution as part of the technical program of ISC2005.
Deadlines
| Extended Abstracts: | | February 21st, 2005 |
| Notification: | | April 2005 contributors will be informed about the committee decision |
Prizes
The prizes in 2005 are entirely sponsored by IBM. All three winners will be awarded a two-way rack mountable IBM eServer OpenPower system fully configured as a building block for a cluster. IBM announced Linux on Power in January 2004, and in March 2004 opened the Power architecture to the
industry to increase innovation. OpenPower takes that innovation a step further by combining the only open microprocessor in the industry with the open operating system developped by the technology community.
Authors of the winning papers will also receive round-trip transportation (economy class) to the ISC2005 conference in Heidelberg and complimentary registration for the conference. (Winners will be responsible for the cost of their accommodations at the conference.)
Proceedings
All contributions will be refereed. Winning contributions presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings.
Award Committee
Arndt Bode, TU Munich, Germany
Jack Dongarra, UTK, USA
Alan Gara, IBM, USA
Pierre Leca, CEA, France
Thomas Ludwig, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany
Ron Perrott, Univ. of Belfast, UK
Michael Resch, HLRS, Germany (Chairman)
Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST, Japan
Horst Simon, NERSC, USA
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