Hyperion Research recently announced the newest recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards.
High performance computing contributes enormously to scientific progress, economic competitiveness, national security and the quality of human life,” said Bob Sorensen, Hyperion Research vice president of research and technology. “The winners of these awards have been judged to be among the world’s best at exploiting HPC to achieve important real-world innovations.”
The awards for outstanding achievements enabled with high performance computing are given twice a year, in conjunction with the June ISC conference in Germany and the November SC conference held in the U.S. The program’s main goals are to showcase return on investment (ROI) and success stories involving HPC; to help other users better understand the benefits of adopting HPC; and to help justify HPC investments, including for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).
The judging panel for the awards is the HPC User Forum steering committee, a volunteer group of HPC experts from throughout the world.
HPC Innovation Excellence Award Winners, November 2017
- The UberCloud (U.S.). HPC Simulations of the Impact of Drug-induced Arrhythmias in Living Hearts. Wolfgang Gentzsch. http://biomechanics.stanford.edu/paper/MEheart.pdf
- Stevens Institute of Technology/New York City Economic Development Corporation (U.S.). Model for the Effects of Sea Level Rise in the Hurricane Storm Surge. Phil Orton and Alan Blumberg. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurricane-sandy-animations-could-improve-flood-forecasts/
- Columbia University (U.S.). Massive Genetic Study Shows How Humans are Evolving. Hakhamanesh Mostafavi. https://www.nature.com/news/massive-genetic-study-shows-how-humans-are-evolving-1.22565
- CINECA (Italy). SuRE_HPC: Sustainable & Renewable Energy HPC. Claudio Arlandini. https://www.zeco.it/of-background-2796/
- NERSC, Berkeley Lab: Galactos. Prabhat. https://www.hpcwire.com/2017/10/02/galactos-project-solves-one-cosmologys-hardest-challenges/
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (U.S.). Choice Works: PSC Models Show Value of Vaccine Choice in Fighting Flu. David Moses. https://www.psc.edu/choiceworks
- University of Toronto SickKids Centre for Computational Medicine (Canada). Research Centre Identifies Precision Treatments. Jorge Gonzalez-Outeirino, Carl Virtanen, and Michael Brudno. http://www.sickkids.ca/globalchildhealth/
- Technical University of Denmark (Denmark). Supercomputer Redesign of Aeroplane Wing Mirrors Bird Anatomy. Niels Aage. https://techxplore.com/news/2017-10-supercomputer-tool-optimize-airplane-wing.html
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S.). Researchers Eye Papermaking Improvements Through High-Performance Computing. Will Elmer. https://www.llnl.gov/news/quicker-picker-upper-lab-researchers-eye-papermaking-improvements-through-hpc
HPC Vendor Innovation Excellence Award Winners, November 2017
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (US). SpaceBorne Supercomputer. Mark R. Fernandez. https://news.hpe.com/hewlett-packard-
