Sidney Fernbach and Seymour Cray Awards Presented for Outstanding Contributions to High Performance Computing.SEATTLE -- John Bell, a senior mathematician at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientific research centers run by the Univ. of California, located in Berkeley, Calif., and Livermore, Calif., respectively. , and Steven Scott, the chief architect of the Cray X1 supercomputer, have been named recipients of the 2005 Sidney Fernbach Award The Sidney Fernbach Award is an award given to an individual for an outstanding contribution in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. The winner receives a certificate and US$2,000. Recipients
Cray has been a charismatic yet somewhat reclusive figure. He began Cray Research in Minnesota in 1972. In 1988, Cray moved his Cray-3 project to Colorado Springs. Science & Engineering Award, respectively. The awards are given by the IEEE Computer Society (body) IEEE Computer Society - The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer". http://computer.org/. for contributions in high performance computer systems and applications using innovative approaches. The awards were presented at SC05, the international conference for high performance computing networking and storage held Nov. 12-18 in Seattle. In conjunction with the award, Bell and Scott will give special lectures today. Scott, the chief architect of the Cray X1 supercomputer, was named for developing a highly scalable, distributed shared memory Distributed Shared Memory (DSM), in computer science, refers to a wide class of software and hardware implementations, in which each node of a cluster has access to a large shared memory in addition to each node's limited non-shared private memory. multiprocessor, employing custom vector processors. The Cray X1 is a shared memory (1) Using part of main memory to support a low-cost display circuit that does not have its own memory. See shared video memory. (2) The common memory in a symmetric multiprocessing system that is available to all CPUs. See SMP. 1. multiprocessor capable of scaling to kilo-processor count employing a custom vector processor and efficient synchronization between scalar/vector pipelines, single-stream processors (SSPs), as well as multi-stream processors (MSPs). According to the IEEE Computer Society citation, "There are some in the field who have perhaps one successful system to their credit, but not a sustained career of success. Steven Scott stands almost alone in sustained, commercially successful, high-end computers in the spirit of Seymour Cray." Bell, Department Head for the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering in the Computational Research Division, was named for his outstanding contributions to the development of numerical algorithms, mathematical, and computational tools and the application of those methods to conduct leading-edge scientific investigations in combustion, fluid dynamics and condensed matter. "John is at the top-most tier of the computational science community," according to the citation. "His sustained record of outstanding technical contributions broadly used and accepted techniques and top quality mathematical software packages clearly qualify him for the Fernbach Award." About SC SC05, sponsored by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, www.acm.org) A membership organization founded in 1947 dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of information processing. In addition to awards and publications, ACM also maintains special interest groups (SIGs) in the computer field. and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. , is the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage, will showcase how high performance computing, networking, storage and analytics lead to advances in research, education and commerce. The conference includes technical and education programs, workshops, tutorials, an exhibit area, demonstrations and hands-on learning. |
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