Gordon Bell Prize
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The Gordon Bell Prizes are a set of award
s awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery
in conjunction with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
each year at the Supercomputing Conference
to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. The main purpose of the award is to acknowledge, reward, and thereby assess the progress of parallel computing. The awards were established in 1987.
The Prizes were preceded by a similar much smaller prize (nominal: $100) by Alan Karp, a numerical analyst (then of IBM; won by Gustafson
and Montry) challenging claims of MIMD performance improvements proposed in the Letters to the Editor section of the Communications of the ACM
who went on to be one of the first Bell Prize judges. Cash prizes accompany these recognitions and are funded by the award founder, Gordon Bell
, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing.
Peak Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the highest performance achieved in terms of floating point operations per second on a genuine application program.
Price/Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the best price-performance ratio as measured in megaflop/s per dollar on a genuine application.
Special: Awarded to the entry whose performance is short of that of the Peak Performance prize, which nevertheless utilizes innovative techniques to produce new levels of performance on a real application. Such techniques may be, for instance, in mathematical algorithms, data structures, or implementations.
Award
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s awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
in conjunction with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
each year at the Supercomputing Conference
Supercomputing Conference
SC , the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is the name of the annual conference established in 1988 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society...
to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. The main purpose of the award is to acknowledge, reward, and thereby assess the progress of parallel computing. The awards were established in 1987.
The Prizes were preceded by a similar much smaller prize (nominal: $100) by Alan Karp, a numerical analyst (then of IBM; won by Gustafson
John Gustafson (scientist)
John L. Gustafson is an American computer scientist and businessman, chiefly known for his work in High Performance Computing such as the invention of Gustafson's Law, introducing the first commercial computer cluster, measuring with QUIPS, leading the reconstruction of the Atanasoff–Berry...
and Montry) challenging claims of MIMD performance improvements proposed in the Letters to the Editor section of the Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM is the flagship monthly journal of the Association for Computing Machinery . First published in 1957, CACM is sent to all ACM members, currently numbering about 80,000. The articles are intended for readers with backgrounds in all areas of computer science and information...
who went on to be one of the first Bell Prize judges. Cash prizes accompany these recognitions and are funded by the award founder, Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell
C. Gordon Bell is an American computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX...
, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing.
Prize categories
Depending on the entries received in a given year, prizes can be awarded in following categories:Peak Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the highest performance achieved in terms of floating point operations per second on a genuine application program.
Price/Performance: Awarded to the entry demonstrating the best price-performance ratio as measured in megaflop/s per dollar on a genuine application.
Special: Awarded to the entry whose performance is short of that of the Peak Performance prize, which nevertheless utilizes innovative techniques to produce new levels of performance on a real application. Such techniques may be, for instance, in mathematical algorithms, data structures, or implementations.
List of recipients
The Gordon Bell Prize winners are:- 2010
- 2009 http://sc09.supercomputing.org/files/SCWinners.pptx
- 2008
- 2007 http://sc07.supercomputing.org/html/GordonBellPrize.html
- 2006 http://sc06.supercomputing.org/news/press_release.php?id=14
- 2005 http://sc05.supercomp.org/news/press_releases_11172005.php
- 2004 http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/awards.html
- 2003 http://www.supercomp.org/sc2003/nr_finalaward.html
- 2002 http://www.supercomp.org/sc2002/news_nrp_conclude.html
- 2001 http://www.sc2001.org/PR-20011115.shtml
- 2000 http://www.sc2000.org/awards/index.htm
- Award winners from 1987 to 1999
| year | peak performance |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 2.33 Pflops |
| 2009 | 2.33 Pflops |
| 2008 | 1.352 Pflops |
| 2007 | 103.9 Tflops |
| 2006 | 207 Tflops |
| 2005 | 107 Tflops |
| 2001 | 11.4 Tflops |
| 1999 | 1.2 Tflops |
| 1996 | 111 Gflops |
| 1990 | 14 Gflops |
| 1989 | 6 Gflops |
| 1988 | 1 Gflops |
| 1987 | 450 Mflops |