Two Students Named Recipients of ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 15 September 2014 -- Harshitha Menon of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Alexander Breuer of Technische Universit채t M체nchen (TUM) have been named recipients of 2014 ACM-IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships. Menon, a graduate student in the UIUC computer science department, where she works with Laxmikant V. Kale in the Parallel Programming Laboratory, won recognition for her project, "Scalable Load Balancing and Adaptive Run Time Techniques." Her work is centered upon dynamic load balancing. Menon received her M.S from UIUC and her B.Tech from the College of Engineering in Trivandrum, India. Prior to joining UIUC, she worked at Google in the area of large-scale distributed systems. Breuer is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at TUM, where he received his diploma in mathematics in 2011. He won recognition for his project, "Petascale High Order Earthquake Simulations." In 2012, he and his colleagues established a collaboration between leading experts in computational science and seismology. He and his collaborators received the PRACE ISC Award and an ACM Gordon Bell nomination for their outstanding end-to-end performance reengineering of the SeisSol software package. His research covers optimizations in the entire simulation pipeline. The ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship is endowed in memory of George Michael, one of the founding fathers of the SC Conference series. The fellowship al PhD students throughout the world whose research focus areas are in highperformance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis. ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and the SC Conference support this award. Fellowship winners are selected each year based on overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which technical interests align with those of the HPC community, academic progress to date, recommendations by their advisor and others, and a demonstration of current and anticipated use of HPC resources. The fellowship includes a $5,000 honorarium, plus travel and registration to receive the award at the annual SC conference. About the IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading computing membership organization and the trusted information and careerdevelopment source for a global workforce of technology leaders including: professors, researchers, software engineers, IT professionals, employers, and students. The unmatched source for technology information, inspiration, and collaboration, the IEEE Computer Society is the source that computing professionals trust to provide high-quality, state-of-the-art information on an ondemand basis. The Computer Society provides a wide range of forums for top minds to come together, including technical conferences, publications, and a comprehensive digital library, unique training webinars, professional training, and the TechLeader Training Partner Program to help organizations increase their staff's technical knowledge and expertise. To find out more about the community for technology leaders, visit http://www.computer.org.
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