Gordon Bell Prize
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[edit] Gordon Bell Prizes
The Gordon Bell Prizes are a set of awards that were established in 1987. Cash prizes accompany these recognitions and are funded by the award founder, Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing. The prizes are 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.
[edit] 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 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.
[edit] List of recipients
- Award winners from 1987 to 1999
- Peak performance: 1987:450 Mflops; 1988: 1Gflops; 1990:14 Gflops; 1996:111 Gflops; 1999:1.2 Tflops; 2001:11.4 TF; 2005:107 Tflops
