Ken Joy Receives Visualization Career Award
The 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award goes to Ken Joy, University of California at Davis, in recognition of foundational research in the mathematical representation of data for visualization and for service to the community. The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Technical Community (VGTC) is pleased to award Ken Joy the 2014 Visualization Career Award. For…
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Chris Johnson Elected IEEE Fellow
Congratulations to Chris Johnson who has been elected an IEEE Fellow for the class of 2014. Dr. Johnson was elected in recognition of his leadership in scientific computing and scientific visualization. This honorary designation is limited to no more than one-tenth of one percent of the total voting IEEE Institute membership each year.
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Kwan-Liu Ma receives the 2013 Visualization Technical Achievement Award
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Chris Johnson Receives IEEE Fernbach Award
Congratulations to Professor Chris Johnson who was awarded the IEEE Computer Society 2013 Sidney Fernbach Award at Supercomputing 2013. This award recognizes Professor Johnson "For outstanding contributions and pioneering work introducing computing, simulation, and visualization into many areas of biomedicine."
The Sidney Fernbach Award is one of the IEEE Computer…
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ADIOS Wins Big
Congratulations to Scott Klasky and his team at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility who received R&D Magazine's R&D 100 Award for the development of the Adaptable I/O System for Big Data, or ADIOS.
For more information see the full press release on the OLCF Website.
Arie Shoshani Receives Berkeley Lab Lifetime Achievement Award
Congratulations to Arie Shoshani who was awarded the Berkeley Lab Prize for Lifetime Scientific Achievement on August 8th. See the full press release on HPC Wire.
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Wes Bethel Named ACM Distinguished Scientist
Dec 12, 2012
Wes Bethel, leader of the Visualization Group in the Computational Research Division, has been named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In the letter nominating Bethel, he was cited for his work on visualization and data analysis for nearly 30 years and being "a well-regarded leader of scientific visualization."
For more information see Berkley Lab: "Wes…
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Making Sense of Big Data from Supercomputers
From Signal Online
October 11, 2012
By Rita Boland
Big data can mean big problems for the people trying to derive usable information from a large number of sources. Since coming into existence in March, the Scalable Data Management, Analysis and Visualization Institute has made strides to resolve this issue for programs running on supercomputers. The young…
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Yuan Tian receives first place in prestigious 2012 ACM Student Research Competition for Smart I/O software
The Association for Computing Machinery's Student Research Competition annually honors student projects that push forward the front line of computer technology. ORNL's doctoral student Yuan Tian worked to improve user efficiency on one of the world's fastest supercomputers, and received first place in the competition in 2012.
Tian developed her Smart I/O framework…
Chris Johnson Receives the IEEE IPDPS 2012 Charles Babbage Award
Congratulations to Chris Johnson on receiving the IEEE IPDPS 2012Charles Babbage Award in recognition of his innovations in the area of scientific visualization and their application to computational biomedicine, engineering, and scientific discovery.
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DOE Federal Laboratory Consortium for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Integrated Partnership Award, April29, 2015. Valerio Pascucci (Utah), Peer-Timo Bremer (Utah)