Gordon Bell Prize
The Gordon Bell Prizes are a set of awards awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery in conjunction with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers each year at the Supercomputing Conference to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. The main purpose of the award is to acknowledge, reward, and thereby assess the progress of parallel computing. The awards were established in 1987.
The Prizes were preceded by a similar much smaller prize (nominal: $100) by Alan Karp, a numerical analyst (then of IBM; won by Gustafson and Montry) challenging claims of MIMD performance improvements proposed in the Letters to the Editor section of the Communications of the ACM who went on to be one of the first Bell Prize judges. Cash prizes accompany these recognitions and are funded by the award founder, Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing.
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[edit] Prize categories
Depending on the entries received in a given year, prizes can be awarded in following categories:
Peak Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the highest performance achieved in terms of floating point operations per second on a genuine application program.
Price/Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the best price-performance ratio as measured in megaflop/s per dollar on a genuine application.
Special: Awarded to the entry whose performance is short of that of the Peak Performance prize, which nevertheless utilizes innovative techniques to produce new levels of performance on a real application. Such techniques may be, for instance, in mathematical algorithms, data structures, or implementations.
[edit] List of recipients
The Gordon Bell Prize winners are:
- 2011 [1]
- 2010 [2]
- 2009 [3]
- 2008 [4]
- 2007 [5]
- 2006 [6]
- 2005 [7]
- 2004 [8]
- 2003 [9]
- 2002 [10]
- 2001 [11]
- 2000 [12]
- Award winners from 1987 to 1999 [13]
| year | peak performance |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 3.08 Pflops |
| 2010 | 2.33 Pflops |
| 2009 | 2.33 Pflops |
| 2008 | 1.352 Pflops |
| 2007 | 103.9 Tflops |
| 2006 | 207 Tflops |
| 2005 | 107 Tflops |
| 2001 | 11.4 Tflops |
| 1999 | 1.2 Tflops |
| 1996 | 111 Gflops |
| 1990 | 14 Gflops |
| 1989 | 6 Gflops |
| 1988 | 1 Gflops |
| 1987 | 450 Mflops |
[edit] References
- ^ "Awards at SC11". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2011. http://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=awards.html. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Awards for Outstanding High Performance Computing Achievements Presented at SC10". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2010. http://sc10.supercomputing.org/files/SC10AwardsHPCNewsrelease.html. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- ^ "Awards at SC09". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2009. http://sc09.supercomputing.org/files/SCWinners.pptx. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Awards for Outstanding High Performance Computing Research and Achievements Presented at SC08 Conference". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2008. http://sc08.supercomputing.org/html/AwardsPresented.html. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- ^ "Gordon Bell Prize at SC07". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2007. http://sc07.supercomputing.org/html/GordonBellPrize.html. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Presentation of Awards for Papers, Poster and Challenges at SC06". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2006. http://sc06.supercomputing.org/news/press_release.php?id=14. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Top Researchers, Projects in High Performance Computing Honored at SC05". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2005. http://sc05.supercomp.org/news/press_releases_11172005.php. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "SC2004 Awardees". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2004. http://www.supercomp.org/sc2004/awards.html. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Top Researchers, Accomplishments in High Performance Computing Honored at SC2003". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2003. http://www.supercomp.org/sc2003/nr_finalaward.html. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "SC2002 Conference Concludes by Smashing Attendance Records, Rewarding Successes in High Performance Computing and Networking". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2002. http://www.supercomp.org/sc2002/news_nrp_conclude.html. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "AWARDS CAP SC2001 HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2001. http://www.sc2001.org/PR-20011115.shtml. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "SC2000 Awards". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2000. http://www.sc2000.org/awards/index.htm. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
- ^ "Gordon Bell Prize Winners from 1987 to 1999". ACM and IEEE Computer Society. 2000. http://www.sc2000.org/bell/pastawrd.htm. Retrieved December 5, 2011.
