Awards

March 2024: 2024 SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Best Paper Prize for the paper “A Recursive Algebraic Coloring Technique for Hardware-Efficient Symmetric Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication” by Christie L. Alappat, Georg Hager, Olaf Schenk, Jonas Thies, Achim Basermann, Alan R. Bishop, Holger Fehske, and Gerhard Wellein.
November 2023: PMBS 2023 Best Short Paper Award for the paper “Physical Oscillator Model for Supercomputing” by Ayesha Afzal, Georg Hager, and Gerhard Wellein.
May 2023: Third Prize Best Research Poster Award at ISC 2023 for Christie Alappat for the poster “RACE: Speeding Up Sparse Iterative Solvers Using Cache-Blocked Matrix Power Kernels”
May 2023: Global Award of Achievement 2023 for Ayesha Afzal
September 2022: PPAM 2022 Best Paper Award for the paper “MD-Bench: A generic proxy-app toolbox for state-of-the-art molecular dynamics algorithms” by Rafael Ravedutti Lucio Machado, Jan Eitzinger, Harald Köstler, and Gerhard Wellein.
June 2021: ISC 2021 Digital PhD Forum Award (1st place) for the contribution “Noise-driven Cluster-level Performance Modelling and Engineering” by Ayesha Afzal
June 2021: ISC 2021 Digital PhD Forum Award (2nd place) for the contribution “The Best Thread Block Size and other parameters you have to tune for optimal performance on GPUs” by Dominik Ernst
November 2020: PMBS 2020 Best Short Paper Award for the paper “Performance Modeling of Streaming Kernels and Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on A64FX” by Christie L. Alappat, Jan Laukemann, Thomas Gruber, Georg Hager, Gerhard Wellein, Nils Meyer, and Tilo Wettig.
November 2019: PMBS 2019 Best Late-Breaking Paper Award for the paper “Automatic Throughput and Critical Path Analysis of x86 and ARM Assembly Kernels” by Jan Laukemann, Julian Hammer, Georg Hager, and Gerhard Wellein.
September 2019: PPAM 2019 Best Paper Award for the paper “Performance Engineering for a Tall & Skinny Matrix Multiplication Kernel on GPUs” by Dominik Ernst, Georg Hager, Jonas Thies, and Gerhard Wellein.
June 2019: Christie Alappat comes second place in ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals
November 2018: Christie Louis Alappat wins the SC18 ACM Student Research Competition Award
November 2018: SC18 Best Poster Award Finalist: Georg Hager et al.
September 2018: CoSaS 2018 Poster Award for Christie Alappat
June 2018: ISC Gauss Award for the paper “On the Accuracy and Usefulness of Analytic Energy Models for Contemporary Multicore Processors” by Johannes Hofmann, Georg Hager, and Dietmar Fey.
June 2018: ISC 2018 Hans Meuer Award finalist: “Chebyshev Filter Diagonalization on Modern Manycore Processors and GPGPUs” by Moritz Kreutzer, Georg Hager, Dominik Ernst, Holger Fehske, Alan R. Bishop, and Gerhard Wellein.
February 2018: SPPEXA Best PhD Award 2017 for Dr. Moritz Kreutzer
June 2017: ISC 2017 PhD Forum Award for Julian Hammer
January 2017: SPPEXA Best Master Thesis Award for Christie Alappat
November 2016: Second Place in SC18 Student Research Competition (graduate) for Julian Hammer
November 2015: SC15 Best Poster Award finalist: Moritz Kreutzer et al.
November 2011: Informatics Europe 2011 Curriculum Best Practices Award for the outstanding educational initiative “Teaching High Performance Computing to Scientists and Engineers: A Model-Based Approach” by Georg Hager, Gerhard Wellein, and Jan Treibig.
July 2009: COMPSAC 2009 Best Paper Award for the paper “Efficient temporal blocking for stencil computations by multicore-aware wavefront parallelization” by Gerhard Wellein, Georg Hager, Thomas Zeiser, Markus Wittmann, and Holger Fehske.
2008: HLRS Golden Spike Award 2008 for the paper “Vector computers in a world of commodity clusters, massively parallel systems and many-core many-threaded CPUs: recent experience based on advanced lattice Boltzmann flow solvers” by Thomas Zeiser
2004: HLRS Golden Spike Award 2004 for the paper “Combination of detailed CFD simulations using the lattice Boltzmann method and experimental measurements using the NMR/MRI technique” by Thomas Zeiser