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News digest 18 June 2008
>Start
>Primeur Live! from Dresden
>Prof.Dr. Meurer kicks off 23rd International Supercomputing Conference, warning "Don't mention 'RoadRunner'"
>Welcome address by Professor Wolfgang Schmid and Official ISC'08 Awards Ceremony
>Blog
>From Dresden to Hamburg
>Shangai supercomputer centre helps companies in China
>TOP500
>Europe's share it the TOP500 at decade high
>Did they make it in time?
>TSUBAME - towards petacomputing for the masses
>PRACE Award goes to Dortmund University of Technology
>31st TOP500 List of world's most powerful supercomputers topped by world's first petaflop/s system
>The Grid
>European Grid Initiative at ISC'08: Supercomputers and Grids - The Future European Ecosystem
>Company news
>SGI mobilizes accelerator technology innovators in effort to boost scientific application performance
>Allinea Software's DDT Debugger and OPT Optimization, Profiler Tool now available for Cell Broadband Engine
>Allinea Software and Terra Soft Solutions partner to maximize performance for Cell BE Power Ecosystem
>Platform Computing launches networking site for HPC community
>ScaleMP announces support for IBM iDataPlex system
>Supermicro demonstrates 290GFLOPS/kW HPC solutions with best density at International SuperComputing (ISC) '08
Welcome address by Professor Wolfgang Schmid and Official ISC'08 Awards Ceremony
Dresden 18 June 2008 Professor Wolfgang Schmid from Silicon Saxony and Qimonda Dresden, Germany introduced Saxony as a very IT-friendly Bundesland to the ISC'08 audience. Silicon Saxony has over 44.000 employees in IT-companies including AMD, Infinion and many universities and mid-sized companies. The energy cost is the new challenge by excellence to remain efficient in data processing and storage. It is a hot topic in this conference too. Professor Resch, chairman of the Awards Committee, assisted by Stephan Gillich from Intel, Germany and Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem from the Research Centre Jülich, Germany celebrated the winners of the ISC'08 Awards.
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Professor Resch said that it was both much easier but also much more difficult for the committee this year to pick the winners for the ISC'08 Awards. Much easier because of the outstanding amount of excellent contributions but also much more difficult to perform the final selection. The two following outstanding papers were rewarded:

  • Jülich Supercomputing Centre - "Performance Measurement and Analysis Tools for Extremely Scalable Systems" by

Bernd Mohr, Brian Wylie and Felix Wolf

  • Mathematics and Computer Science at Argonne National Laboratory on Grid Computing - "Distributed I/O with ParaMEDIC: Experiences with a Worldwide Supercomputer" by among others S. Matsuoka and P. Balaji

Sponsor for the Award, Intel presented a workstation to both winners. "If you have not won this year, go for the ISC Award 2009", invited Professor Resch.

The PRACE project is aiming to encourage young scientists to do supercomputing. Therefore, the PRACE Award was introduced. Prof. Achim Bachem handed over the first prize to Professor Turek of the Technical University of Dortmund for a paper about "UCHPC - UnConventional High Performance Computing for Finite Element Simulations".

The PRACE award will continue in the following years.
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