High Performance Computing Finalists Announced for ACM Gordon Bell Prize

Will you be joining the RAID, Inc team at SC ’15 in Austin in November?  The finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize were just released yesterday and winners will be announced at the conference.  The award celebrates progress made each year in the application of parallel computing to challenges in science, engineering, and big data.

Finalists are selected – not just as because of impressive scientific outcomes – but because of what the implications of their particular approach to scalability, performance, or time-to-solution are for the broader HPC community.

From InsideHPC, the finalists are:

Life Sciences:  “Massively Parallel Models of the Human Circulatory System,” with research led by Amanda Randles of Duke University and a team of collaborators from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM (abstract)

Bio-IT: “The In-Silico Lab-On-A-Chip: Petascale And High-Throughput Simulations Of Microfluidics At Cell Resolution,” led by Diego Rossinelli of ETH Zurich and an international team of researchers from Brown University, the University of Italian Switzerland, the National Research Council of Italy, NVIDIA Corporation, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (abstract)

Supercomputers/Nanoscience: “Pushing Back the Limit of Ab-initio Quantum Transport Simulations on Hybrid Supercomputers,” led by Mauro Calderara with a team from ETH Zurich (abstract)

Earthquake Simulation: “Implicit Nonlinear Wave Simulation with 1.08T DOF and 0.270T Unstructured Finite Elements to Enhance Comprehensive Earthquake Simulation,” led by a team that includes the University of Tokyo, RIKEN, Niigata University, the University of Tsukuba, and the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (abstract)

Geophysics: “An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth’s Mantle,” led by Johann Rudi from University of Texas at Austin and a team that includes IBM, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, and the California Institute of Technology (abstract)

We hope to see you at SC ’15!  Contact us to connect with us at the conference.