ACM Gordon Bell Prize

The Gordon Bell Prize is awarded each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. The purpose of the award is to track the progress over time of parallel computing, with particular emphasis on rewarding innovation in applying high-performance computing to applications in science, engineering, and large-scale data analytics. Prizes may be awarded for peak performance or special achievements in scalability and time-to-solution on important science and engineering problems.  Finalists present their work each November at the annual SC Conference, and the award is presented at the SC Awards Ceremony accompanied by a prize of $10,000.  Financial support for the award is provided by Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing.

For information on the nomination process, visit http://awards.acm.org/bell/nominations.cfm.

The 2015 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Winner: “An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex -PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth’s Mantle” in the category Scalabilty, authored by:  Johann Rudi, Tobin Isaac, and Omar Ghattas, all of The University of Texas at Austin; A. Cristiano I. Malossi, Peter W. J. Staar, Yves Ineichen, Costas Bekas, and Alessandro Curioni, all of IBM Corporation; Georg Stadler of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; and Michael Gurnis of California Institute of Technology. 

Submissions Close: April 24, 2015
Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Email Contact: awards@info.supercomputing.org