Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
Encyclopedia
The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an award
given by the IEEE Computer Society
, to recognize significant and innovative contributions in the field of high-performance computing
. The award honors scientists who exhibit the creativity
demonstrated by Seymour Cray
, founder of Cray Research, Inc., and an early pioneer of supercomputing. The winner receives a crystal memento, certificate, and US$
10,000.
Award
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given by the IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer Society is a professional society of IEEE. Its purpose and scope is “to advance the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing science and technology” and the “professional standing of its members.” The CS is the largest of 38 technical societies...
, to recognize significant and innovative contributions in the field of high-performance computing
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
. The award honors scientists who exhibit the creativity
Creativity
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs...
demonstrated by Seymour Cray
Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited...
, founder of Cray Research, Inc., and an early pioneer of supercomputing. The winner receives a crystal memento, certificate, and US$
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
10,000.
Recipients
- Charles L. Seitz, 2011. "For innovations in high-performance message passing architectures and networks."
- Alan Gara, 2010. For his "innovations in low power, densely packaged supercomputing systems."
- Kenichi Miura, 2009. For his "ingenuity in developing supercomputer software and hardware that advanced the state-of-the art in technical computing."
- Steve WallachSteve WallachSteven "Steve" J. Wallach, born Brooklyn, NY, September 1945, is currently an adviser to Centerpoint Venture partners, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Interwest, and a consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing program at Los Alamos National Laboratory...
, 2008. For his "contribution to high-performance computing through design of innovative vector and parallel computing systems, notably the Convex mini-supercomputer series, a distinguished industrial career and acts of public service." - Ken BatcherKen BatcherKen Batcher is an emeritus professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. He also worked as a computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron, Ohio for 28 years. In 1964, Batcher received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois...
, 2007. "For fundamental theoretical and practical contributions to massively parallel computation, including parallel sorting algorithms, interconnection networks, and pioneering designs of the STARANSTARANSTARAN might be the first commercially available computer designed around an associative memory. The STARAN computer was designed and built by Goodyear Aerospace Corporation. It is a Content Addressable Parallel Processor, a type of parallel processor which uses content addressable memory...
and MPPGoodyear MPPThe Goodyear Massively Parallel Processor was amassively parallel processing supercomputer built by Goodyear Aerospacefor the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.It was designed to deliver enormous computational power at lower cost than...
computers." - Tadashi WatanabeTadashi Watanabeis a Japanese computer engineer. Watanabe is the project manager of the RIKEN Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center. He played a central role in the development of the NEC SX architecture. Watanabe was awarded the Eckert–Mauchly Award in 1998, and the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering...
, 2006. "For serving as lead designer of the NEC SX series of supercomputers, and especially for the design of the Earth SimulatorEarth SimulatorThe Earth Simulator , developed by the Japanese government's initiative "Earth Simulator Project", was a highly parallel vector supercomputer system for running global climate models to evaluate the effects of global warming and problems in solid earth geophysics...
, which was the world's fastest supercomputer from 2002 to 2004." - Steven L. Scott, 2005. "For advancing supercomputer architecture through the development of the Cray T3ECray T3EThe Cray T3E was Cray Research's second-generation massively parallel supercomputer architecture, launched in late November 1995. The first T3E was installed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1996. Like the previous Cray T3D, it was a fully distributed memory machine using a 3D torus...
, the Cray X1Cray X1The Cray X1 is a non-uniform memory access, vector processor supercomputer manufactured and sold by Cray Inc. since 2003. The X1 is often described as the unification of the Cray T90, Cray SV1, and Cray T3E architectures into a single machine...
and the Cray Black Widow". - William J. Dally, 2004. "For fundamental contributions to the design and engineering of high-performance interconnection networks, parallel computer architectures, and high-speed signaling technology."
- Burton J. Smith, 2003. "For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing and especially for sustained championing of the use of multithreading to enable parallel execution and overcome latency and to achieve high performance in industrially significant products."
- Monty DenneauMonty Denneauright|thumbnail|Monty M. Denneau is a computer architect and mathematician. Denneau was awarded the 2002 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award for "ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to widely used industrial...
, 2002. "For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to widely used industrial products." - John L. HennessyJohn L. HennessyJohn LeRoy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academician. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and is the 10th President of Stanford University.-Background:...
, 2001. "For pioneering contributions to the foundation, teaching, and practice of high performance computing, especially in distributed shared memoryDistributed shared memoryDistributed Shared Memory , in Computer Architecture is a form of memory architecture where the memories can be addressed as one address space...
multiprocessor architectures and in design and application of reduced instruction set architectures." - Glen J. CullerGlen CullerGlen Jacob Culler was a professor of electrical engineering and an important early innovator in the development of the Internet. Culler joined the University of California, Santa Barbara mathematics faculty in 1959 and helped put the campus in the forefront of what would become the field of...
. 2000. "For pioneering contributions to the foundation and practice of high performance computing in array and very long instruction word (VLIW) processing especially for use in interactive scientific exploration." - John CockeJohn CockeJohn Cocke was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."...
, 1999. "For unique and creative contributions to the computer industry through innovative high performance system designs."