Call for Nominations – Upcoming Edition
The PRACE HPC Excellence Award for outstanding scientific advances through the usage of high-performance computing, recognises an outstanding individual or team for ground-breaking research, through the usage of high-performance computing, that leads to significant advances in any research field. Details are provided in the Terms of References for the Award.
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Nominations have to be submitted through the PRACE Peer Review Portal.
Eligibility
The award can be given to any individual who, or team that, demonstrates that their work has been communicated and peer-reviewed within five years preceding the nomination deadline.
Self-nominations are allowed.
Review criteria
The Prize Committee will give the award to the individual or the team best fulfilling the overall vision of making ground-breaking scientific advances through the usage of high-performance computers.
More specifically, the following criteria will be used:
- Outstanding contribution to addressing challenges in all fields of science and engineering, particularly those enabled by innovative methodological and algorithmic advances
- Role of, and need for, advanced high-performance computing in addressing the challenge
The Prize Committee will determine how these criteria will be weighted across fields, and no feedback will be provided to individual applications.
A motivation and short paragraph will be provided to the winner.
Prize Committee
For the year 2024, the committee members are
- Edouard Audit, Chair of the Prize Committee and Vice-Chair of the PRACE Council Science Section
- George Biros
- Jack Dongarra
- Vincent Galinier, Chair of the PRACE Council Industry Section
- Norbert Meyer, Chair of the PRACE Council HPC Centres Section
- Nathalie Reuter
Award
The award will consist of a prize sum of € 20 000, as well as a certificate and an engraved trophy.
The winner of the award commits to give a plenary talk at the PRACE Intersection Seminar or at another high-level HPC event in Europe (travel and accommodation costs covered by PRACE).
Background and History
The PRACE HPC Excellence Award was launched in 2022 after approval by the PRACE members, then gathered in the PRACE Council, on the recommendation of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee and has been awarded annually since then and announced at some high-level European HPC event.
In awarding such a prize, PRACE wants to promote excellence in Science achieved thanks to the effective use of High Performance Computing, the focus being set on the outstanding scientific achievements more than on the underlying computing technology.
