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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below is a message from Dr. Jeremy Kepner.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations to the winners!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join me in congratulating the HPEC Award winners listed below. The MIT organized IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (<a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/">HPEC</a>) free virtual conference (Sep 23-27)
features many world-class research projects in a 150+ presentation <a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/">agenda</a> featuring 30+ talks on AI. HPEC is
one of IEEE’s largest and most accessible US virtual conference. Register now at <a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/">IEEE-HPEC.org</a> to see these and other great talks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-4" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-4"><br>
Benchmarking Thread Block Cluster</a> [<b>Outstanding Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Tim Lühnen</i>, Tobias Marschner (Hamburg Univ. of Tech.), Sohan Lal (TU Hamburg)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-2" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-2">MonoCoder: Domain-Specific Code Language Model for HPC Codes and Tasks</a> [<b>Outstanding
Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tal Kadosh (Ben-Gurion Univ., IAEC), Niranjan Hasabnis (Intel), Vy Vo (Intel Labs), Nadav Schneider (Ben-Gurion University), Neva Krien (Independent), Mihai Capotã (Intel Labs), Abdul Wasay, Guy Tamir (Intel), Theodore L Willke, Nesreen
Ahmed (Intel Labs), Yuval Pinter (Ben-Gurion University), Tim Mattson (Human Learning Group), <i>Gal Oren</i> (Technion)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-2" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-2">LLM Inference Serving: Survey of Recent Advances and Opportunities</a> [<b>Outstanding
Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Baolin Li</i>, Yankai Jiang (Northeastern Univ.), Vijay Gadepally (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern Univ.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-1" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-1">ModelGauge: Inference Profiling of Deep-Learning Models</a> [<b>Outstanding Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Calvin B Gealy</i> (Univ. of Pittsburgh), David Langerman (NSF SHREC), Alan George (NSF Center for High Performance Reconfigurable Computing)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-3" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-3">Multilevel Diffusion Based Spectral Graph Clustering</a> [<b>Outstanding Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Malik Lechekhab</i>, Dimosthenis Pasadakis, Olaf Schenk (Univ. della Svizzera italiana)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#1-1" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#1-1">Supercomputer 3D Digital Twin for User Focused Real-Time Monitoring</a> [<b>Outstanding
Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>William Bergeron</i>, Matthew Hubbell, Daniel Mojica, Albert Reuther, William Arcand, David Bestor, Daniel Burrill, Chansup, Byun, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Houle, Hayden Jananthan, Michael Jones, Piotr Luszczek, Peter Michaleas (MIT),
Lauren Milechin (MIT ORCD), Julie Mullen, Andrew Prout, Antonio Rosa, Charles Yee, Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-2" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-2">Benchmarking the Performance of Large Language Models on the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine</a> [<b>Outstanding
Student Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Zuoning Zhang</i>, Dhruv Parikh (USC), Youning Zhang (UC, Berkeley), Viktor K Prasanna (USC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#1-2" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#1-2">Predictive Performance of Photonic SRAM-based In-Memory Computing for Tensor Decomposition</a> [<b>Outstanding
Student Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sasindu Wijeratne</i> (USC), Sugeet Sunder (USC Information Sciences Institute), Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser, Akhilesh Jaiswal (Univ. of Wisconsin), Clynn Mathew, Ajey Jacob (USC Information Sciences Institute), Viktor K Prasanna (USC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-1" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-1">On the Scalability of Computing Genomic Diversity Using SparkLeBLAST: A Feasibility Study</a> [<b>Outstanding
Student Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ritvik R Prabhu, Bernard Moussad (Virginia Tech), Karim Youssef (LLNL), Emil Vatai (RIKEN), <i>Wu-chun Feng</i>(Virginia Tech)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-3" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-3">Batch-Parallel Compressed Sparse Row: A Locality-Optimized Dynamic-Graph Representation</a> [<b>Outstanding
Student Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Brian Wheatman</i>, Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Helen Xu (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-1" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-1">Cycle-Stealing in Load-Imbalanced HPC Applications</a> [<b>Outstanding Student Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Po Hao Chen (Brown University), Akshaya Bali, Shining Yang, Pouya Haghi, Carlton Knox, Benjamin Li (Boston Univ.), Amr Abouelmagd, Anthony Skjellum (Tennessee Tech), <i>Martin Herbordt</i> (Boston Univ.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-1" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-1">Tightly-Coupled FPGA Accelerator for Molecular Dynamics Simulation: Hardware-Software
Co-Design and Fine-Grained Task Management</a> [<b>Outstanding Student Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Zekang Cheng</i>, Zerong S He, Xi Jin (Univ. of Science and Technology of China)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-P" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-P">Running GraphBLAS on the FABRIC testbed</a> [<b>Outstanding Short Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vaneshi Ramdhony, Hyunsuk Bang, <i>Nik Sultana</i> (Illinois Institute of Technology)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-P" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-P">Hypersparse Traffic Matrices from Suricata Network Flows using GraphBLAS</a> [<b>Outstanding
Short Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Michael D Houle</i>, Michael Jones (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Dan Wallmeyer, Risa Brodeur, Justin Burr (Center for Internet Security), Hayden Jananthan (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Sam Merrell (Center for Internet Security), Peter Michaleas
(MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Anthony Perez (Center for Internet Security), Andrew Prout, Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-P" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#2-P">Performance Analysis of Falcon Post-Quantum Cryptography in Embedded Hardware-Software
Integration</a> [<b>Outstanding Short Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John Biselx (HES-SO), <i>Andrea Guerrieri</i> (HES-SO and EPFL)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-1" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-1">Enhanced Knowledge Graph Attention Networks for Efficient Graph Learning</a> [<b>Outstanding
Student Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Fernando P Vera Buschmann</i>, Zhihui Du, David A Bader (New Jersey Inst. of Tech.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-P" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#3-P">CLIP-Embed-KD: Computationally Efficient Knowledge Distillation Using Embeddings as Teachers</a> [<b>Outstanding
Short Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Lakshmi V Nair</i> (Lightmatter)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-P" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-P">Synthesizing Numerical Linear Algebra using Julia</a> [<b>Outstanding Short Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sophie Xuan, <i>Rabab MA Alomairy</i>, Evelyne Ringoot, Felipe Tome, Julian Samaroo, Alan Edelman (MIT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-P" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#5-P">Towards LibraryX: A Framework for Cross-Library Call Optimization</a> [<b>Outstanding
Short Paper Award</b>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sanil Rao</i>, Anant Prakash, Franz Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4">Mercury: Efficient Subgraph Matching on GPUs with Hybrid Scheduling</a> [<b>Graph Challenge
Champion Award]</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zhiheng Lin (Inst. of Computing Tech, CAS), Changjie Xu (UCAS), Ke Meng, <i>Guangming Tan</i> (Inst. of Computing Tech, CAS)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4">Towards Faster Graph Partitioning via Pre-training and Inductive Inference</a> [<b>Graph
Challenge Champion Award]</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Meng Qin</i> (HKUST), Chaorui Zhang (Huawei), Yu Gao (Independent), Yibing Ding, Weipeng Jiang (Huawei), Weixi Zhang (Huawei Technologies), Wei Han (Huawei), Bo Bai (Huawei Technologies)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4">Distributed-Memory Sparse Deep Neural Network Inference Using Global Arrays</a> [<b>Graph
Challenge Innovation Award]</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sayan Ghosh</i>, Bruce Palmer, Andres Marquez (PNNL)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4">Extracting TCPIP Headers at High Speed for the Anonymized Network Traffic Graph Challenge</a> [<b>Graph
Challenge Innovation Award]</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Zhaoyang Han, Andrew Briasco-Stewart (Northeastern Univ.), Michael Zink (UMass Amherst), <i>Miriam Leeser</i>(Northeastern Univ.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4" title="https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2024-prelim-agenda/#4-4">Sans: Streaming Anonymized Network Sensing</a> [<b>Graph Challenge Honorable Mention Award]</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ketai Zhao, Yuhang Zhou, Hong Xu Pan, <i>Zhibin Wang</i>, Sheng Zhong, Chen Tian (Nanjing Univ.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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