Over there?
Over there.
This is my place.
Yeah.
Still.
Good.
Thank you very much.
Hans, this is my time.
Thank you.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, Hans asked me to be very sharp, very much in time.
Unfortunately, he gave too many thanks to me in his part of the meeting, so we're running
a little bit late.
It is a pleasure for me here to show you the results of the ISC award 2009.
As you know, the award is there to honor scientists working on projects which address the applicability
of high-performance computing to real-life problems in an innovative way.
Hans, while I mentioned that I was doing a lot of work, he said I'm definitely not lazy.
That means he doesn't know me very well.
I'm very lazy.
What I basically do is I ask a lot of experts to support me in that, and I mention the scientific
experts here on the table, and I would like to thank my coworkers here for their excellent
work to choose this award.
For me, basically the job is to announce the two winners.
For the first winner, I would like to ask Mark Hamilton, Vice President America's System
Practice Sun Microsystems USA, to join me here on the stage for the awarding ceremony.
And the winners are Pavan Balachi, Anthony Chan, Rajeev Thakur, William Grob, and Ewing
Laskram, Argonne National Laboratory.
I would like to ask them to join us here on this stage.
They promise to be here.
Where are you?
No one there.
To send at least one of them.
Right.
And I have two speakers in my own session in the afternoon.
Okay.
Mark, would you like to say a few words about these nice gentlemen in their paper?
Well, actually, I think this is a great testament to Sun supporting open systems that were giving
an award to someone working on an IBM system.
Anyhow, as we scale, there are no pure competitors or pure partners anymore, but certainly one
of the challenges is scaling message processing to, you know, across hundreds of thousands
of plus cores and millions of processes.
And so I think a great work done here by Argonne National Labs and the researchers will certainly
benefit not only IBM customers, but all people building massively scalable systems of this
size.
So thank you very much.
Okay.
Mark, thank you very much for being the sponsor.
I hope we will see the speakers anyway.
I'm very sorry.
This is a premier, by the way.
It's the first time in eight years that the award winner doesn't show up.
For the second award, and this time I know that the winners are here, for the second
award, I would like to ask Dr. Stefan Gillich, director of HPC and workstation EMEA from
Intel Germany, to join me here on the stage.
We have a very interesting set of authors and a very interesting title of the paper.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Virat Aghavar, David Vada, Lin Dan, Renkur Liu,
David Barcetto, Michael Perone, and for greats here between me.
While they are coming on the stage, a few words.
We had about 50 to 60 submissions for papers.
About 20 were chosen to be presented, and about 20 of which we had to choose two.
And these are really the most outstanding papers.
And I hand over to Dr. Gillich for a few words probably.
Yeah.
So I'd like to thank everyone who has basically put in papers also on behalf of Intel.
And obviously, my congratulations to this team here for their outstanding work on multicore
acceleration.
As you all know, Intel is also driving behind the multicore or multicore processors.
So we see that work obviously is very important.
And I'm glad the program committee saw your work and valued it that much.
The other thing I wanted to tell you, the audience here, the other paper where nobody
showed up, that might be that one of the persons I recognized has been here last year already.
And that leads me back to the prize we're giving out this time.
That's again a workstation for all of you to increase your personal productivity with
that workstation, obviously equipped with the latest Intel processor and integrated
by Sun.
So my colleague has contributed to that as well.
By the way, the same award to everyone.
But I mention this because last year we had a workstation as well.
And it looks like it really helps the productivity of the teams because I saw at least one person.
We gave this award last year to turn up again.
So I don't say a lot about our products here.
You know them.
But maybe that tells something about the efficiency of using our workstations.
Thanks.
Okay.
You get to read more.
I'm going to read more.