Our program to recognize noteworthy achievements made by users using High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies.
How winners will be selected
» All submissions will receive a careful and complete review
» Submissions must contain a clear description of the dollar value or scientific value received in order to qualify
» Volunteers from the HPC User Forum Steering Committee will conduct an initial ranking of the submissions (for the list of the steering committee members, click here).
» The final evaluation will then be conducted by selected experts in the specific area/discipline in which the work was done.
» Winners will be notified in advance of any public announcement
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Recent Winners
Recent Innovation Excellence Award Winners
Click the dropdown boxes below to see the most recent HPC User Forum Excellence Awards winners.
21st Round HPC Innovation Award Winners – Announced During SC25
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Mexico’s National Seismological Service (SSN)
Urgent HPC for Earthquakes Applied as a Service
Aerton Guimarães & Marisol Monterrubio -
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UC San Diego)
Exploring Real-time Tsunami Warning System on World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Jeremy Thomas, LLNL -
ORCA Computing
Agentic AI for Biomanufacturing Optimization Using Hybrid Quantum–Classical HPC Systems
Per Nyberg -
Occidental Petroleum (OXY)
Gas Lift Optimization (GLO): Closed Loop, AI Driven Optimization at Permian Field Scale
Nikolaos Mitsakos -
NVIDIA
*HPC Vendor Innovation Award Winner
NVIDIA Blackwell GPU and Platform
20th Round HPC Innovation Award Winners - Announced During SC24
- University of Maryland
AxoNN: Democratizing AI via Open-source Scalable AI Training and Fine-tuning
Siddharth Singh and Abhinav Bhatele
- NASA
Closed-Loop Mars Entry Simulations with Distributed Exascale Computing
Eric Nielsen
- DigiFarm
Advancing precision and resilient agriculture with AI, reducing costs and boosting crop yields
Nils Helset
19th Round HPC Innovation Award Winners – Announced Following SC23
- FedData Technology Solutions
Application of Graph Theory for the Acceleration of a Parallel Neutral Particles and Radiation Transport Algorithm
Dr. Gianluca Longoni
- Boston University
Reconnection-Driven Energy Cascade in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Chuanfei Dong
- McMaster University and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Machine Learning for Antibiotic Discovery Against a Challenging Superbug
McMaster University and HPE
Jonathan Stokes
- HLRS and WIKKI GmbH
Mesh Data Layout for Parallel I/O of Finite Volume Data Implemented in OpenFOAM
Gregor Weiss (HLRS) and Henrik Rusche (WIKKI GmbH)
18th Round HPC Innovation Award Winners – Announced During SC22
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University
HPC-driven design of innovative functional materials for catalysis, energy conversion, and storage
Andrey Lyalin
https://sites.google.com/site/andylyalin?pli=1 - Sorbonne Université and Qubit Pharmaceuticals
Fast-track computationally-driven discovery of new SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease (Mpro) inhibitors: from HPC to experimental drug candidates
Jean-Philip Piquemal
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/sc/d1sc05892d - HLRS, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart
An automated agent-based simulation method for the prediction of intensive care unit (ICU) occupancy due to COVID-19
Ralf Schneider
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348007338_Forecasting_intensive_care_unit_demand_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_A_spatial_age-structured_microsimulation_model - Bettair Cities SL
AI-based emulator of Computational Fluid Dynamic simulations for urban wind flow and gas dispersion
Francisco Ramirez Javega
https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/hyperion-research-announces-winners-of-2022-hpc-innovation-excellence-awards/ - Rolls-Royce
LS-DYNA Scaling with the direct implicit solver
Todd Simons
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9139822/authors#authors
17th Round HPC Innovation Award Winners – Announced During SC21
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Better Wildfire Models Save Property and Lives
Branko Kosovic
https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50004321enw - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
“Liquid” Machine-Learning System Adapts to Changing Conditions
Ramin Hasani
https://news.mit.edu/2021/machine-learning-adapts-0128 - University of Montana and Sandia National Laboratories
Ancient Australian “superhighways” suggested by massive HPC study
Kyle Bocinsky
https://cacm.acm.org/news/252407-ancient-australian-superhighways-suggested-by-massive-supercomputing-study/fulltext
16th Round HPC Innovation and ROI Award Winners - Announced at SC 2020
- University of Alabama at Huntsville (U.S.) Hewlett Packard Enterprise / Cray (U.S.)
Identifying Promising Anti-Covid Agents via HPC Cloud Computing
Kendall Byler, Joseph Landman, Jerome Baudry
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/High_Performance_Computing_
Prediction_of_Potential_Natural_Product_Inhibitors_of_
SARS-CoV-2_Key_Targets/12497693 - National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois (U.S.)
Deep Learning on HPC Predicts Optimal Materials Designs
Diab Abueidda, Hunter Kollmann, Seid Koric, Nahil Sobh, Erman Guleyruz
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S026412752030633X - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.)
Modeling Complex Interactions between Precipitation Frequency and Climate Change
Kaiyu Guan, et al
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/ncsa_researchers_
create_one_of_the_most_reliable_tools_for_long_term_crop_p - Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
CASL Accurately Simulated Startup of Only New U.S. Reactor in 21 Years
Dave Kropaczek, Doug Kothe
https://www.ornl.gov/sites/default/files/2020-02/CASLweb.pdf - SURF Open Innovation Lab and multiple Dutch
universities (NL)
Deep Learning Enhancement of Large-Scale Numerical Simulations
Caspar van Leeuwen, Axel Berg
https://www.surf.nl/files/2020-03/white-paper-dl4hpc-.pdf
15th Round HPC Innovation and ROI Award Winners - Announced at SC 2019
- The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (Germany) Automated Segmentation of Knee Bone and Cartilage combining Statistical Shape Knowledge and Convolutional Neural Networks. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=SJ_-Nx3jz
- Argonne National Laboratory (U.S.) Risk and Resiliancy of Infrastructure Southeastern USA for AT&T. Rao Kotamarthi, Jiali Wang, Eugene Yan, Julie Bessac, Alissa Jared and Thomas Wall. https://www.anl.gov/article/att-leverages-argonnes-climate-modeling-and-infrastructure-resilience-expertise-to-benefitCerebras (U.S.) Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine. JP Fricker, Michael James, Gary Lauterbach and Sean Lie. https://www.enterpriseai.news/2019/08/28/ai-supercomputer-on-a-wafer-debuted-by-cerebras/
- Sugon (China) Silicon Cube Blade System Phase-Change Liquid Cooling System. https://www.servethehome.com/sugon-nebula-phase-change-immersion-cooling-a-unique-platform/
14th Round HPC Innovation and ROI Award Winners - Announced at ISC 2019
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/NCSA (U.S.) Massively Parallel Evolutionary Computation for Empowering Electoral Reform: Quantifying Gerrymandering via Multi-objective Optimization and Statistical Analysis. Wendy K. Tam Cho and Yan Liu. https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ncsa-scientist-employs-supercomputer-simulations-in-ohio-gerrymandering-case/
- University of California, Davis (U.S.). Project DisCo (Discover of Coherent structures). Adam Rupe. https://wwwstage.nersc.gov/assets/Uploads/BDC-06-Adam-Rupe-Project-Disco.pdf
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S.). Can machine-learning help us find modes of laser-driven fusion that have been undiscovered by traditional methods? Brian Spears. https://data-science.llnl.gov/research-areas/cognitive-simulation
- California Institute of Technology (U.S.). Hidden Earthquake Research. Dr. Zachary Ross. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/scientists-identify-almost-2-million-previously-hidden-earthquakes
To view prior years’ winners, click here.
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