Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
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New deadline for 2019 nominations: 1 June 2019
Established in late 1997. A crystal memento, illuminated certificate, and $10,000 honorarium are awarded to recognize innovative contributions to high performance computing systems that best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray.
The award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements.
| 2018 | David Shaw | For visionary leadership of the Red Storm project, and for decades of leadership of the HPC community. |
| 2016 | William Camp | For visionary leadership of the Red Storm project, and for decades of leadership of the HPC community. |
| 2015 | Mateo Valero | In recognition of seminal contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW architectures. |
| 2014 | Gordon Bell | For his exceptional contributions in designing and bringing several computer systems to market that changed the world of high performance computing and of computing in general, the two most important of these being the PDP-6 and the VAX-11/780. |
| 2013 | Marc Snir | For contributions to the research, development, theory, and standardization of high-performance parallel computing including the IBM RS/6000 SP and Blue Gene systems. |
| 2012 | Peter M. Kogge | For innovations in advanced computer architecture and systems. |
| 2011 | Charles L. Seitz | For innovations in high-performance message passing architectures and networks. |
| 2010 | Alan Gara | For innovations in low power, densely packaged supercomputing systems. |
| 2009 | Kenichi Miura | For leadership in developing groundbreaking vector supercomputing hardware and software. |
| 2008 | Steve Wallach | For contribution to high-performance computing through design of innovative vector and parallel computing systems, notably the Convex mini-supercomputer series, a distinguished industrial career and acts of public service. |
| 2007 | Kenneth E. Batcher | For fundamental theoretical and practical contributions to massively parallel computation, including parallel sorting algorithms, interconnection networks, and pioneering designs, of the STARAN and MPP computers. |
| 2006 | Tadashi Watanabe | For serving as lead designer of the NEC SX series of supercomputers, and especially for the design of the Earth Simulator, which was the world?s fastest supercomputer from 2002 to 2004. |
| 2005 | Steven L. Scott | For advancing supercomputer architecture through the development of the Cray T3E, the Cray X-1 and the Cray "Black Widow". |
| 2004 | William J. Dally | For fundamental contributions to the design and engineering of high-performance interconnection networks, parallel computer architectures, and high-speed signaling technology. |
| 2003 | Burton J. Smith | For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing and especially for sustained championing of the use of multithreading to enable parallel execution and overcome latency and to achieve high performance in industrially significant products. |
| 2002 | Monty M. Denneau | For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to widely used industrial products. |
| 2001 | John L. Hennessy | For pioneering contributions to the foundation, teaching, and practice of high performance computing, especially in distributed shared memory multiprocessor architectures and in design and application of reduced instruction set architectures. |
| 2000 | Glen J. Culler | For pioneering contributions to the foundation and practice of high performance computing in array and very long instruction word (VLIW) processing especially for use in interactive scientific exploration. |
| 1999 | John Cocke | For unique and creative contributions to the computer industry through innovative high performance system designs. |
2018 Seymour Cray Subcommittee Chair
Marc Snir
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. David E. Shaw Selected to Receive 2018 IEEE-CS Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 18 October 2018 —Dr. David E. Shaw, chief scientist of D. E. Shaw Research and a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University, has been named recipient of the 2018 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.
Dr. Shaw is being recognized “for the design of special-purpose supercomputers for biomolecular simulations.”
The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering award is one of the IEEE Computer Society’s highest awards, and is presented in recognition of innovative contributions to high-performance computing systems that best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray. The award consists of a crystal memento, a certificate, and a $10,000 honorarium.
Since 2001, Dr. Shaw has devoted his time to hands-on research in the field of computational biochemistry. His lab is currently involved in the development of new algorithms and machine architectures for high-speed biomolecular simulations, and in the application of such simulations to basic scientific research and computer-aided drug design.
Dr. Shaw was appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology by President Clinton in 1994, and again by President Obama in 2009. He is a two-time winner of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007, to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.
He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980, served on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Columbia until 1986, and founded the D. E. Shaw group in 1988.
Previous Seymour Cray Award recipients include Gordon Bell, Ken Batcher, John Cocke, Glen Culler, William J. Dally, Monty Denneau, Alan Gara, John L. Hennessy, Peter Kogge, Kenichi Miura, Steven L. Scott, Charles Seitz, Burton J. Smith, Marc Snir, Steven Wallach, Tadashi Watanabe, and Mateo Valero.
The 2018 IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award will be presented to Dr. Shaw at the SC18 Conference awards plenary session in Dallas, Texas on Tuesday morning, 13 November 2018.
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