CS Professor Marc Snir, the Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor, was presented with IEEE Computer Society Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award for his contributions to high-performance parallel computing. Kale also received an award at the conference. He was part of a team that received the HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences for its use of the Blue Waters supercomputer to achieve a significant breakthrough in understanding the HIV virus. The organization of this year’s conference was led by CS Professor William Gropp, the Thomas M. Siebel Chair.
