Named for one of the founders of supercomputing and administered by the Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineering, the Gordon Bell Prize is awarded to innovators who advance high-performance computing. The prize was established in 1987.
William Dannevik (team leader), Ron Cohen (co-principle investigator), Art Mirin, Bruce Curtis, Mark Duchanineau, Dan Schikore, Andris Dimits, Don Eliason, and collaborators from University of Minnesota and IBM (1999)
The Laboratory-led team was given the 1999 Gordon Bell Award for its simulation of turbulence resulting from a shock wave passing through the interface of two fluids with different mass densitities. This proof-of-principle simulation used more than 24 billion zones calculating at 1.18 trillion floating point operations per second.
Fred Streitz (team leader), James Glosli, Mehul Patel, Bor Chan, Robert Yates, Bronis de Supinski, and collaborators from IBM (2005)
For “100+ Tflop/s Solidification Simulations on BlueGene/L.” The team investigated metal solidification (e.g., tantalum) at extreme temperatures and pressures with simulations ranging from 64,000 to 524 million atoms.
A record-setting
simulation of turbulence won the Gorden Bell Prize in 1999