Sidney Fernbach Award

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The Sidney Fernbach Award is a prize for solving application problems with high-performance computers that has been awarded annually by the IEEE Computer Society since 1993 . It is endowed with 2000 dollars and named in honor of Sidney Fernbach .

Award winners

With laudation:

  • 1993 David H. Bailey for contributions to numerical computer science including innovative algorithms for Fast Fourier Transform , Matrix Multiplication, and Multiple Precision Arithmetic on vector computer architectures .
  • 1994 Charles S. Peskin for innovative application of mathematical modeling methods to practical research questions about blood flow and heart, which for fifteen years pushed the limits of computing power and helped develop supercomputer technology as a major tool for the improvement of human life .
  • 1995 Paul R. Woodward for the development of new algorithmic techniques in hydrodynamics and the tireless and innovative expansion of hardware and software capacities for the implementation and visualization of the largest real-time simulations of turbulence .
  • 1996 Gary A. Glatzmaier for innovative numerical computer methods that allowed the first realistic simulation of the earth's geodynamics and its time-dependent magnetic field .
  • 1997 Charbel Farhat for outstanding contributions to the development of parallel numerical algorithms and parallel software packages that introduced parallel computing technology to the world of mechanical engineering .
  • 1998 Phillip Colella for fundamental contributions to the development of software methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations and their application, which significantly expanded our understanding of the physics of shock waves and other hydrodynamic problems .
  • 1999 Michael L. Norman for his cutting-edge research in the application of parallel computing in important problems in astrophysics and cosmology .
  • 2000, Stephen W. Attaway for pioneering methods for modeling transient dynamic phenomena that enabled simulations of unprecedented size and accuracy .
  • 2002 Robert J. Harrison for developing software packages in computational chemistry by integrating fundamental research on algorithms, novel ideas in computational science, and scalability, creating unprecedented modeling capabilities for chemistry .
  • 2003 Jack Dongarra for outstanding and sustained contributions in the field of mathematical software, in particular in the fields of communication and numerical libraries and performance benchmarks for high-performance computing .
  • 2004 Marsha Berger for her many contributions and enormous influence in numerical hydrodynamics including adaptive lattice refinement methods, Cartesian lattice methods and practical mathematical algorithms for solving significant previously unsolvable problems .
  • 2005 John B. Bell for outstanding contributions to the development of numerical algorithms, mathematical and computational tools and the application of these methods for cutting-edge research in combustion, hydrodynamics and solid state physics .
  • 2006 Edward Seidel for outstanding contributions to the development of software for high-performance computing and grid computing that enabled the collaborative numerical solution of complex problems in physics, in particular the modeling of black hole collisions .
  • 2007 David E. Keyes for his outstanding contributions to the development of scalable numerical algorithms for the solution of nonlinear partial differential equations and his outstanding leadership role in high-performance computing .
  • 2008 Bill Gropp for outstanding contributions to the development of domain decomposition algorithms, scalable tools for the numerical solution of partial differential equations on parallel computers and the leading high-performance computer communication interface .
  • 2009 Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello for their leadership role in creating modern theoretical and practical foundations for modeling the chemistry and physics of materials. The resulting software is one of the tools that made modeling possible in materials science .
  • 2010 James Demmel for his leadership role in computer science developing adaptive, innovative and high performance software for linear algebra .
  • 2011 Cleve Moler for fundamental contributions to linear algebra, mathematical software and tools for computer science .
  • 2012 Laxmikant V. Kale and Klaus Schulten for outstanding contributions to the development of widely used parallel software for the simulation of large biomolecular systems .
  • 2013 Christopher R. Johnson for outstanding contributions and pioneering work that introduced high computing power, simulation and visualization into many areas of biomedicine .
  • 2014 Satoshi Matsuoka for his work on software systems for high-performance computers on advanced infrastructure platforms, large supercomputers and heterogeneous GPU / CPU supercomputers .
  • 2015 Alex Szalay for his outstanding contributions to the development of data-intensive computing systems and the application of such systems in many scientific fields including astrophysics, turbulence and genomics .
  • 2016 Vipin Kumar for fundamental work on understanding scalability and highly scalable algorithms for graph subdivision, sparse linear systems and data mining .
  • 2017 Steven J. Plimpton for high performance simulation environments that advanced research in materials science, chemistry, biology and related fields .
  • 2018 Linda Petzold for her pioneering contributions to numerical methods and software for differential algebraic systems and for discrete stochastic simulation .
  • 2019 Alan Edelman for outstanding breakthroughs in high-performance computing, in linear algebra and computer science in general as well as for his contributions to the programming language Julia.

Web links

  1. ^ Alan Edelman of MIT Recognized with Prestigious 2019 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award. In: computer.org. IEEE Computer Society, October 1, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .