The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced the inception of the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research. The new award will be presented in 2020 and 2021 and will recognise outstanding research achievements that use high performance computing (HPC) applications to understand the COVID-19 pandemic, including the understanding of its spread. Nominations will be selected based on performance and innovation in their computational methods, in addition to their contributions toward understanding the nature, spread and/or treatment of the disease.
A cash prize in the amount of $10,000 will accompany the award, which was conceived and funded by Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high performance computing and researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research. The new COVID-19-focused award is a complement to the longstanding ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which recognises outstanding achievement in high performance computing applications. Nominations can be submitted via an online submission form till October 8, 2020.
As with the corollary ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the recipient of the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research will be offered the opportunity to present their work at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, and have their research published in The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA) (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hpc).
Individuals or teams can apply for the award. Nominations will be evaluated based on certain considerations. More information can be found at https://awards.acm.org/bell/covid-19-nominations.
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