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.
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
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/
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
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
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
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)
To view prior years’ winners, click here.
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