Cactus Prizes and Major Achievements
During the last couple of years, Cactus and its developers have won some of the high performance computing's most prestigious awards. Some of them are presented on this page.
High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge (SC2002)
High-Performance Computing Challenge Award (SC2002)
Gordon Bell Prize for Supercomputing (SC2001)
HPC “Most Stellar” Challenge Award (SC98)
Heinz Billing Prize for Scientific Computing (1998)
NCSA Top Users
IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award (2006)
| Dr. Edward Seidel has been awarded one of the most prestigious awards for "outstanding contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches". The IEEE computer society recognized Seidel for outstanding contributions to the development of software for high-performance computing and grid computing to enable the collaborative numerical investigation of complex problems in physics, particularly focusing on modeling black hole collisions. |
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More on the News.
High-Performance Bandwidth Challenge (SC2002)
| The LBNL/NCSA team has won the "Highest Performing Application" award at SuperComputing 2002 with the Cactus based application “Wide Area Distributed Simulations using Cactus, Globus and Visapult”. The wininig application transfers data at 16 GByte/s, modeling gravitational waves generated during the collision of black holes. |
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High-Performance Computing Challenge Award (SC2002)
| The Cactus team were a core part of the Global Grid Testbed Collaboration, who won both the "Most Geographically Distributed Application" and "Most Heterogeneous Set of Platforms" prizes at SC2002 for a task farming application written with Cactus which deployed Cactus Black Hole simulations across 70 diverse machines in 12 different countries. |
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Gordon Bell Prize for Supercomputing (SC2001)
| Top researchers T. Dramlitsch, G. Allen, E. Seidel, I. Foster, B. Toonen, N. Karonis and M. Ripeanu won the supercomputing award at SC2001 in Denver by "Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments with Cactus and Globus". The Cactus Computational Toolkit was used together with Globus and MPICH-G2 to solve challenging physics problems. More about this in the News section. |
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HPC “Most Stellar” Challenge Award (SC98)
| "Cactus 3" won the Most Stellar HPC Challenge Award at SC98. This application was used to perform a simulation of colliding neutron stars across the two continents, distributing the computational grid across three T3E's in Garching (Germany), Berlin (Germany) and SDSC (USA). Follow the link for further information http://jean-luc.aei.mpg.de/Projects/SC98/. |
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Heinz Billing Prize for Scientific Computing (1998)
| The Heinz Billing Prize 1998 was awarded to Edward Seidel in recognition of his group's work in scientific computing including the Cactus Code. This award is given by the Heinz Billing Society to promote scientific computing within the Max Planck Society. Follow the link for further information on the Heinz-Billing-Preis. |
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NCSA Top Users
Every month, NCSA used to congratulate the top users of the center's SGI systems. Among the winners in 2000 and 2001 were Gabrielle Allen, Gerd Lanfermann, Mark Miller, Lars Nerger, Ed Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi.
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Last modified 2007-01-29 12:17 PM
Last modified 2007-01-29 12:17 PM
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