STILES@CC.USU.EDU (Dyke Stiles) (09/06/89)
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Third Annual Gordon Bell Awards
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Summarized from SIAM News, July, 1989, p. 10:
The Bell Awards for 1989 will be broken into two categories:
1. Parallelism Awards
Prizes of $1,000 each will be awarded in two of the
following three categories:
a. Performance: Best performance on any parallel machine.
b. Price/Performance: Lowest ratio of system cost to
performance on any commercially available system.
c. Compiler/Parallelism: Best performance when compiled
automatically for a parallel machine.
2. Bell-Perfect Awards
These five new awards are based on the Perfect Club
benchmarks - 13 Fortran scientific and engineering
applications. The $2,500 prize will be distributed at
the discretion of the judges over the five categories
below:
a. Sixteen or fewer processors (minimum running time on
for all codes; modifications may be made, but results
have to be good).
b. More than 16 processors (ditto).
c. Perfect Suite Cost-Effectiveness (based on all codes).
d. Algorithm Cost-Effectiveness (based on four selected
algorithms).
e. Perfect Subset (minimum running time for two selected
codes).
The Bell awards, for the past two years, have received
substantial press coverage in the US. Based on our own work on
fluid dynamics codes, I would guess that transputer systems
(probably PC-based) could walk away with the price/performance
prizes in both categories. A transputer win in any of the
classes would certainly boost interest.
The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31, 1989. More details, and
the Perfect Benchmarks, can be obtained from:
Bell Awards
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
University of Illinois
Urbana IL 61801
Send them a 9-track tape, and they will return it with the
benchmarks; otherwise, they want cash.
Dyke Stiles.