Call For Nominations: HPDC 2025 Achievement Award

Overview

The HPDC Annual Achievement Award, established in 2012, is presented to an individual who has made long-lasting, influential contributions to the foundations or practice of the field of high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC). These contributions may include one or more of the following:

• Conceptual advances that have influenced the design or operation of HPDC systems or applications;
• Innovative techniques or tools for the design or analysis of HPDC systems or applications;
• Design, implementation, and deployment of innovative (components of) HPDC systems or applications;
• Analysis of innovative (components of) HPDC systems or applications.

In selecting the achievement award recipient, the Award Selection Committee will place particular emphasis on seminal contributions and a sustained record of high-impact in the field.

Achievement Award Talk

The winner of the HPDC Annual Achievement Award must be available to receive the award in-person at the HPDC 2025 conference to be held in Notre Dame, IN, USA from July 20-23, and present an achievement award talk at the conference.

Nomination Guidelines

Candidates may nominate a colleague by uploading a letter of nomination as a PDF file to http://hpdc2025award.hotcrp.com. The letter of nomination should be about one page and contain:

1. The nominee's current professional affiliation(s).
2. A brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award.
3. A description of the technical contributions of the nominee and their significance and impact.

Each nomination received will be retained and considered by the committee for three consecutive years. Self-nominations will not be accepted.

Important Dates

Nomination deadline: Friday, Febuary 28, 2025, 11:59 AOE.

Award Selection Committee

• Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale
• Manish Parashar
• Douglas Thain
• Jarek Nabrzyski
• Devesh Tiwari

The award selection committee is chaired by a member of the HPDC steering committee and includes the General Chair(s) and the Program Committee Chair(s) of the current HPDC conference, and the previous year's award winner. An award committee member cannot be a nominator or be selected as the winner.

Past Winners

• 2024: Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, for pioneering development of task-based adaptive parallel programming models and runtime systems, leading to a new category of highly scalable scientific applications.
• 2023: Manish Parashar, for pioneering contributions in high performance parallel and distributed computational methods, data management, in-situ computing, and international leadership in cyberinfrastructure and translational computer science.
• 2022: Franck Cappello, for his pioneering contributions in methods, tools, and testbeds for resilient high performance parallel and distributed computing.
• 2021: Rosa M. Badia, for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community.
• 2020: No award made.
• 2019: Geoffrey Fox, for his foundational contributions to parallel computing, high-performance software, the interface between applications and systems, contributions to education, and outreach to underrepresented communities.
• 2018: Satoshi Matsuoka, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and application of high performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed systems.
• 2017: David Abramson, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and application of high performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed systems.
• 2016: Jack Dongarra, for his long-standing and far-reaching contributions in high performance linear algebra and large-scale parallel and distributed computing.
• 2015: Ewa Deelman, for her significant influence, contributions, and distinguished use of workflow systems in high-performance computing.
• 2014: Rich Wolski, for pioneering and high-impact contributions to grid, cloud, and parallel computing.
• 2013: Miron Livny, for his significant contribution and high impact in the area of high-throughput computing.
• 2012: Ian Foster, for his initiative in the creation and development of grid computing and his significant contributions to high-performance distributed computing in support of the sciences.