Best Paper and Poster Awards

Each year, the SC Technical Papers Committee identifies one paper as the best paper from the Conference's Technical Program. Additionally,  the SC Technical Papers Committee identifies one paper as the best paper written primarily by a student or students and presented in the Conference's Technical Program. Papers must be identified as student papers when submitted to be eligible for this award. 

The SC Posters Committee identifies one poster as the best poster presented as part of the Conference's Technical Program. This award is distinct from those selected through  the ACM Student Research Competition.

These awards will be announced at the SC15 awards ceremony.

Click here for a listing of this year's finalists. 

The 2015 Best Student Paper Award Winner: ”Parallel Distributed Memory Construction of Suffix and Longest Common Prefix Arrays” by Patrick Flick and Srinivas Aluru, both of Georgia Institute of Technology. 

The 2015 Best Paper Award Winner: ”ScaAnalyzer — A Tool to Identify Memory Scalability Bottlenecks in Parallel Programs” by Xu Liu of College of William & Mary, and Bo Wu of Colorado School of Mines. 

The 2015 Best Poster Award Winner: “Parallelization, Acceleration, and Advancement of Dissipative Particle Dynamics  (DPD) Methods” authored by: Timothy I. Mattox, James P. Larentzos, and Sean Ziegeler, all of Engility Corporation; Christopher P. Stone of Computational Science and Engineering, LLC; John K. Brennan of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Martin Lísal of the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and J. E. Purkyne University.

The 2015 Undergraduate Student Research Award: 

• 1st Place: “Lessons from Post-Processing Climate Data on Modern Flash-Based HPC Systems” by Adnan Haider (Illinois Institute of Technology)
• 2nd Place: “Optimization Strategies for Materials Science Applications on Cori: An Intel Knights Landing, Many Integrated Core Architecture” by Luther D. Martin (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center)  
• 3rd Place: “Modeling the Impact of Thread Configuration on Power and Performance of GPUs” by Tiffany A. Connors (Texas State University)  

The 2015 Graduate Student Research Award: 

• 1st Place: “AccFFT: A New Parallel FFT Library for CPU and GPU Architectures” by Amir Gholami (The University of Texas at Austin)
• 2nd Place: “Efficient Multiscale Platelets Modeling Using Supercomputers” by Na Zhang (Stony Brook University)
• 3rd Place: “High Performance Model Based Image Reconstruction” by Xiao Wang (Purdue University) 
   

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