Gordon Bell – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 Computing Pioneer Gordon Bell to Share Insights at SC17 – Marking 30 Years of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/09/25/computing-pioneer-gordon-bell-to-share-insights-at-sc17/ Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:00:09 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6156 Everyone knows that computers have grown exponentially faster and more powerful. But only a few know exactly why and how – and Gordon Bell has been a sage among them since the 1960s as the former head of R and D at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), establishing the minicomputer industry with the PDP and Vax […]

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]]> 6156 Chinese Research Team that Employs High Performance Computing to Understand Weather Patterns Wins 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/18/chinese-research-team-employs-high-performance-computing-understand-weather-patterns-wins-2016-acm-gordon-bell-prize/ Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:29:17 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4750 Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18, 2016 – ACM, the world’s leading professional computing society (www.acm.org), has named a 12-member Chinese team the recipients of the 2016 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their research project, “10M-Core Scalable Fully-Implicit Solver for Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Dynamics.” The winning team presented a solver (method for calculating) atmospheric dynamics. The […]

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]]> 4750 ACM Gordon Bell Prize Recognizes Top Accomplishments in Running Science Apps on HPC http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/08/25/acm-gordon-bell-prize-recognizes-top-accomplishments-running-science-apps-hpc/ Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:30:58 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3607 For the first time, SC conference releases a comprehensive list of all Gordon Bell winners since 1987. Here is that historical perspective. Each year at SC, two key indicators of HPC performance are highlighted. Both were created to provide a more accurate measure of overall performance than the theoretical peak performance levels sometimes touted by […]

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]]> 3607 Finalists Compete for Prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/08/23/finalists-compete-prestigious-acm-gordon-bell-prize-high-performance-computing/ Tue, 23 Aug 2016 17:41:31 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=3688 Winners to be announced at SC16 in Salt Lake City, UT (USA) Salt Lake City, UT (USA) – Aug. 23, 2016 – Six outstanding research efforts in high performance technical computing have been selected as finalists in supercomputing’s most prestigious competition, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing. The $10,000 prize will be presented […]

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