Program Goals

• Showcase success stories involving HPC in science and industry
  
• Help other users better understand the benefits of adopting HPC and justify HPC investments, especially for SMBs
• Demonstrate the value of HPC to funding bodies
• Expand public support for increased HPC investments
• If you have one or more HPC success stories you would like to see recognized through our program, we encourage you to complete and submit this application form. Please submit a separate form for each success story that you want considered.

Program Objectives

While there are multiple benchmarks to measure the performance of technical computers, there currently isn't an adequate methodology to evaluate the economic and scientific value HPC systems contribute. The HPC Innovation Excellence Award Program is designed to help close that gap.

The main objectives of the program are as follows:

• Recognize users and their vendors for major HPC-supported achievements in industry, government and academia.
• Build a large portfolio of quantified ROI success stories to strengthen the case for boosting investments in and funding for HPC.
  * Quantifying HPC ROI has been difficult historically, because users have been reluctant to make this information available, or have not assembled this information. The award program provides an important means for gathering more quantified ROI success stories. Through identifying clear ROI examples, we expect to demonstrate  more convincingly the close link between HPC and economic/scientific innovation and competitiveness.
• Increase HPC adoption by educating the market on its benefits – using clear and specific  ROI examples.
• Shed more light on new/emerging markets for HPC — e.g. the “Missing Middle”, SMB/SME/SMS's, data-intensive computing, cloud computing, etc.

Prizes

Winners will be invited to present their success stories at HPC User Forums, SC, ISC as well as industry specific events.

Judging Panel

Volunteers from the HPC User Forum Steering Committee will conduct an initial ranking of the submissions.

Steve Finn BAE Systems Chairman Sharan Kalwani KAUST Vice Chairman Earl Joseph IDC, Executive Director Vijay Agarwala Penn State University Alex Akkerman Ford Motor Company Doug Ball The Boeing Company Paul Buerger Avetec

Steve Conway IDC Research Vice President Jack Collins National Cancer Institute Jeff Broughton NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Merle Giles NCSA/University of Illinois Chris Catherasoo HPC Consultant James Kasdorf Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Doug Kothe Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Muzio City University of New York Michael Resch HLRS, University of Stuttgart Vince Scarafino Industry Expert Robert Singleterry NASA/Langley Allan Snavely San Diego Supercomputer Center Rupak Biswas NASA Ames