TCPP April 2025 Newsletter

Dear TCPP Members,

In the current time when science is debated with opinion, ignored, or silenced, we are happy to reunite ourselves into a technical community that helps tighten our ties and advance our knowledge. By having people work together, we find new ideas, and our community helps to share these with our future members. This cycle of advancement in knowledge is a precious asset, may we help it last through our gathering and events!

Speaking of which, you will find in this newsletter reminders for upcoming gathering events, and deadlines for events happening a little later. You will also find a message from Alfredo Goldman, Chair since last June, who reflects on his (almost complete) first year in position. And as usual, we will congratulate the last award recipients!

TCPP news from the Chair Alfredo Goldman

Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of newsletters these last times, I am getting used to be TCPP chair (and now, I know that Anne Benoit had a lot of work).

We had some new initiatives last year that I would like to highlight:

I would also like to announce that we have two vice-chairs to support TCPP activities: Alba Melo and Ananth Kalyanaraman

To finish, I want to let you know that we have some new conferences under the TCPP umbrella.

I hope to see you soon at IPDPS in Italy!

Awards

We congratulate the following people for their awards in the field of HPC:

[Early Career]  Maciej Besta (ETH Zurich), Guanpeng Li (University of Iowa), and Xin Liang (University of Kentucky) received the 2024 IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.

[Charles Babbage Award] Srinivas Aluru (Georgia Institute of Technology) received this award for pioneering contributions to the field of Parallel Computational Biology.

[Ken Kennedy Award] David A. Padua (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) received this award for innovative and usable contributions to the theory and practice of parallel compilation and tools, as well as service to the computing community.

[Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award] William M. Tang (Princeton University) received the 2024 Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award for contributions in fusion energy research accelerated by high-performance computing and deep learning.

[Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award] Norman P. Jouppi (Google) received this award for the design and deployment of special-purpose supercomputers for artificial intelligence.

Upcoming deadlines and events

The following deadlines are to be noted for this year:

The following TCPP events are getting closer as well:

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have remarks or suggestions about TCPP and this newsletter, and feel free to encourage colleagues to become TCPP members as well for free: http://computer.org/jointcpp.

Clément FOYER

TCPP Web coordinator