The Call for Nominations for the 2022 edition of the PRACE HPC Excellence Award is open until 20 May 2022
The PRACE HPC Excellence Award recognises an outstanding individual or team for ground-breaking research, through the usage of high-performance computing, that leads to significant advances in any research field.
The award can be given to any individual or team that demonstrates that the work has been communicated and peer-reviewed within five years preceding the nomination deadline. Self-nominations are allowed.
The Call for Nominations for the 2022 edition of the PRACE HPC Excellence Award is open until 20 May 2022. Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and be sent here using the submission form. The winner(s) of the award will be notified by 6 June 2022. They commit to participating in PASC22 conference and to giving a plenary talk there. The winner will receive a prize sum of € 20 000.
Prize Committee
The Prize Committee is composed of six well-renowned international scientists, three being members of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), and three from external scientific institutions. The Committee is formed considering diversity in its different forms, such as field of expertise, gender, country, academy/industry.
The current members are:
- Laura Grigori, INRIA (Chair of the Prize Committee, and former chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee)
- George Biros, University of Texas at Austin
- Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
- Erik Lindahl, Stockholm University
- Nathalie Reuter, University of Bergen (Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee)
- Matej Praprotnik, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana (Member of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee)
Review criteria
The committee will give the award to the individual or the team best fulfilling the overall vision of making ground-breaking scientific advances through the usage of high-performance computers.
More specifically, the following criteria will be used:
- Outstanding contribution to addressing challenges in all fields of science and engineering, particularly those enabled by innovative methodological and algorithmic advances
- Role of, and need for, advanced high-performance computing in addressing the challenge
The prize committee will determine how these criteria will be weighted across fields, and no feedback will be provided to individual applications.