Call For Nominations: HPDC 2026 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 2026 conference to be held in Cleveland, OH, USA, from July 13-16, and present an achievement award talk at the conference. Please see https://hpdc.sci.utah.edu/2026/ for details about HPDC 2026.

Nomination Guidelines

Members of the community may nominate a colleague by uploading a letter of nomination as a PDF file to https://hpdc26award.hotcrp.com. The nomination package, submitted as a single PDF, should include:

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.
4. CV of the nominee.

The nomination package (PDF file) must be named as YYYY_Nominee_FirstName_Nominee_LastName_By_Nominator_LastName.pdf (e.g., 2026_Ann_Curie_By_Maxwell.pdf) and the title of the submission on the Hotcrp portal should be the same as the file name.

A nominator can nominate only one candidate, and any candidate can receive this award only once. Each nomination remains active for three consecutive years. Self-nominations are not permitted.

If you nominated a candidate within the past three years (HPDC 2024 or later), their nomination remains active and under consideration until this cycle (e.g., a nomination for HPDC 2025 award cycle is active until HPDC 2027 cycle). Should you wish to nominate a new candidate while your previous nomination for a different candidate is still active, you will be required to choose one of the two candidates to remain as your official nominee.

The candidate who is not selected will be informed that their nomination has been under consideration, and you will be copied on that communication.

Important Dates

Nomination deadline: Monday, March 02, 2026, 11:59 AOE.

Award Selection Committee

• Michela Taufer
• Rosa Badia
• Alfredo Goldman
• Mehmet Koyuturk
• Kathryn Mohror
• Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos
• Manish Parashar
• Devesh Tiwari

Past Winners

• 2025 Michela Taufer, for her contributions to volunteer computing and advancing high-performance computing.
• 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.