Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

SIAM Siag on Supercomputing Best Paper Prize 2016

for the most outstanding paper published in 2012-2015 in a journal in the field of high performance computing. Co-authors are J. Demmel, L. Grigori, M. Hoemmen, and J. Langou, for the paper Communication-Optimal Parallel and Sequential QR and LU Factorizations, published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 2012.

Citation of the jury: This is a cornerstone paper in Numerical Linear Algebra and Parallel Processing that lays down both theoretical and practical algorithmic frameworks for communication-avoiding algorithms. The paper provides powerful insights and renews attention on communication reduction both of which will have long-lasting and practical impact in parallel and distributed computing.

Bull-Joseph Fourier 1st Prize 2015 (15 000 euros)

for our work Imaging of cerebrovascular accident through High Performance Computing by V. Dolean, F. Hecht, P. Jolivet, F. Nataf and P-H. Tournier. This was the sixth edition of this competition which corresponds to the French "Gordon Bell Prize".