Sidney Fernbach Memroial Award:
Dr. Marsha Berger, NYU/Courant Institute

Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award:
Dr. William J. Dally, Stanford University

Best Technical Paper:
Assessing Fault Sensitivity in MPI Applications
Charng-Da Lu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Daniel Reed (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Best Student Technical Paper:
Analysis and Performance Results of a Molecular Modeling Applications on Merrimac
Mattan Erez, Jung Ho Ahn, Ankit Garg, William J. Dally, Eric Darve (Stanford University)

Best Research Poster:
The Next Generation of the Java CoG Kit
Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory
Kaizar Amin, North Texas University
Matt Bone, Loyola University
Mike Hategan, University of Chicago
Pankaj Sahasrabudhe, University of Louisville
Mike Sosonkin, Polytechnic University, New York
Robert Winch, Loyola University
Nithya Vijayakumar, Indiana University
David Angulo, DePaul University

Gordon Bell Awards:
Peak Performance “A 15.2 TFlops Simulation of Geodynamo on the Earth Simulator,”
Akira Kageyama, Masanori Kameyama, Saturo Fujihara, Masaki Yoshida, Mamoru Hyodo, and Yoshinori Tsuda (Earth Simulator Center, JAMSTEC)

Special Category: “Ultrascalable Implicit Finite Element Analyses in Solid Mechanics with Over a Half a Billion Degrees of Freedom,”
Mark F. Adams (Sandia National Laboratories), Harun H. Bayraktar (Abuqus Corporation), Tony M. Keaveny (U.C. Berkeley), Panayiotis Papadopoulos (U.C.Berkeley)

HPC Software Challenge:
The Trilinos Package Architecture and Infrastructure, presented by Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories

Improving Parallel Finite Element Method-Based Applications Through Software Engineering, presented by Dale Shares, US Army Research Lab

Bandwidth Challenge Awards:
Entry name: A Framework of Cyberinfrastructure
Origanization: San Diego Supercomputer Center
Award: Best Spirit of the Challenge
Description: Comprehensive Use of TeraGrid, SCinet, Storcloud, and Onsite Computer Resources achieving 27 Gb/s sustained disk-to-disk real application performance