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| HPC Community Leadership Award |
| SciDAC Program, Individuals Nominated |
| This is the inaugural year for insideHPC’s HPC Community Leadership Awards. The award, to be announced at SC09, recognizes the people and organizations that have persevered through technology, budget, or organizational challenges to place innovative HPC solutions in the hands of users in business, engineering, technology, and science. A select panel from both sides of the Atlantic has recommended nominees in two categories this year: organization and individual. |
| The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is a nominee for the organization award. The DOE SciDAC program has been the most successful computational science program of the decade. Since its inception, SciDAC has made awards to 56 universities, 17 national laboratories, and three corporations. The results have been an unprecedented increase in the productivity, scalability, and accuracy of the tools, middleware, and applications used by computational scientists around the world. |
| Three of the five nominees in the individual category are faces familiar within the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR): Michael Strayer, Jack Dongarra, and Bill Gropp. |
| Michael Strayer is the Associate Director for ASCR in DOE, and has been instrumental in the development and coordination of national and global efforts to advance HPC to the exascale. He was responsible for helping initiate the early exascale town hall workshops in 2007, the more formal DOE exascale workshops in 2008 and 2009, and he also changed the game in HPC software by initiating the International Exascale Software Project (IESP) to coordinate global resources to address HPC’s biggest challenges. |
| Jack Dongarra specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, use of advanced computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. Dongarra continues to lead the way as technology evolves — the PLASMA/MAGMA project for multicore technology and the IESP initiative for exascale computing are both examples. |
| Bill Gropp may be best known for his contribution to the HPC community, the MPI standard. Many people suggest that node-level parallelism will run out of sensible programming paradigms long before internode — largely due to MPI scaling well beyond the scale of resources around at the time of its introduction. Gropp can be regularly heard arguing how MPI can evolve to keep our millions of lines of “legacy applications” scaling to systems with millions of cores, and he has made major contributions in hierarchical numerical methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. This year he led the SC09 technical program and was a major contributor to several other conference technical programs. |
The other nominees are Pete Ungaro of Cray and Steve Wallach of Convey.
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