Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC)

SAAHPC 2011 best paper awards

Two best paper awards were given recently at the 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC 2011).

The best paper on the use of GPUs for scientific computing was “Adaptable Two-dimension Sliding Windows on NVIDIA GPUs with Runtime Compilation,” co-authored by Nicholas Moore, Miriam Leeser and Laurie Smith King of Northeastern University. They will receive an NVIDIA Tesla C2070 GPU computing processor, courtesy of SAAHPC 2011 sponsor NVIDIA.

The best paper on the use of FPGAs for scientific computing was “Real-time Object Tracking System on FPGAs,” co-authored by Su Liu, Alexandros Papakonstantinou and Deming Chen of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They will receive an FPGA board, courtesy of SAAHPC 2011 sponsor Xilinx.

Congratulations to this year’s honorees!