Jan. 20, 2025 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computer scientist Peter Lindstrom received the 2025 IEEE VIS Test of Time Award for his 2014 paper on near-lossless data compression, recognizing its lasting influence on the field of scientific visualization and high-performance computing. (Graphic: Dan Herchek) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computer scientist Peter Lindstrom recently […]
Jan. 11 Pre-registration Deadline for IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference Student Innovation Challenge
January 5, 2026 by
ORLANDO, FL (Jan. 5, 2026) – The IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), has extended the deadline for the Student Innovation Challenge for ECTC 2026. Six winning student teams will have the opportunity to attend ECTC 2026 with financial assistance, including travel costs up to a specified amount. Eligible participants currently enrolled in an […]
André Seznec Wins ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
June 17, 2025 by
New York, June 17, 2025 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE CS, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, have announced that André Seznec is the recipient of the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. Seznec, a Fellow Research Director at INRIA/IRISA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology/Research […]
‘Sparsification’: PNNL Preps Data for Quantum
April 23, 2025 by
Quantum computing holds great promise in such such as computational chemistry and high-speed networking. But they’re so different from classical HPC systems that scientists are working out how to feed them ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab’s Verónica G. Melesse Vergara — Unleashing ‘Breakthrough Science’
February 5, 2025 by
“One of the most fun aspects of HPC engineering is that you get to solve a broad range of problems getting an application to run well and run at scale – sometimes to even run at all. There is always something new to learn and the feeling of finding a solution ….”
IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, May 28-31 in Denver
April 30, 2024 by
DENVER (April 30, 2024) – The forum for microelectronics packaging and component science and technology, the 74th annual IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), will take place from Tuesday to Friday, May 28-31, 2024 at Denver’s Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, with more than 1,500 scientists, engineers and businesspeople from more than 20 […]
Keshav Pingali to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
October 4, 2023 by
New York, October 4, 2023 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Computer Society have named Keshav Pingali, the W.A.”Tex” Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, as the recipient of the 2023 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. The Ken Kennedy Award recognizes groundbreaking achievements in parallel and high […]
ORNL’s Xiao Wang Named IEEE Senior Member
April 12, 2023 by
April 12, 2023 — Xiao Wang, a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world’s largest organization for technical professionals. Wang works in the lab’s Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate’s Advanced Computing for Health Sciences Section. Senior membership, the IEEE’s highest grade, […]
Ian Foster to Receive ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award
September 8, 2022 by
New York, Sept. 7, 2022 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery and IEEE Computer Society have named Ian Foster, a Professor at the University of Chicago and Division Director at Argonne National Laboratory, as the recipient of the 2022 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. The Ken Kennedy Award recognizes pathbreaking achievements in parallel (high performance) computing. Foster is cited […]
OLCF’S HPC Systems Engineer Bing Xie Wins IEEE Early Career Award
November 17, 2021 by
Bing Xie, a high-performance computing systems engineer for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society’s Early Career Researchers Award for excellence in high-performance computing, or HPC. The award recognizes outstanding, influential and potentially long-lasting HPC contributions. Xie received her Ph.D. in computer science from Duke University […]
