- Sebastian Kuckuck and Christian Schmitt received the SPPEXA best thesis award for their doctoral PhD thesis’ “A Domain-Specific Language and Source-to-Source Compilation Framework for Geometric Multigrid Methods” and “Automatic Code Generation for Massively Parallel Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics” at the SPPEXA final symposium from 21st-23rd of October. Also, Piet Jarmatz received the best thesis award for his master thesis “Parallel Noise Reduction for Transient Molecular-Continuum Coupled Flow Simulations”.
- The paper "A new load balancing approach for coupled multi-physics simulations" written by Amin Totounferoush, Neda Ebrahimi Pour, Juri Schroder, Sabine Roller and Miriam Mehl won the best paper award in the 20th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing of IEEE IPDPS 2019 (3rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium).
- Christie Louis Alappat, PhD student in ESSEX, has been awarded with the second place in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Together with his advisor, Prof. Gerhard Wellein, he was invited to the awards ceremony which took place in San Francisco on June 15, 2019. At the very same ceremony Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun received the prestigious ACM Turing Award 2018 for their seminal work on deep learning algorithms.
- The EXASTEEL application is a "CSE Success Story" in Research and Education in Computational Science and Engineering from SIAM Review. EXASTEEL is described in "Numerical Libraries Provide Computational Engines for Advanced CSE Applications" on page 736
- The PhD student Christie Louis Alappat struck 1st place in the ACM Student Research Competition at SC18. His project, which he described in a video, is part of the activities in ESSEX-II.
- An ESSEX paper has been nominated as one of two finalists for the Hans Meuer Award 2018.
- Markus Huber won the Student Competition of the PASC Conference 2017, as well as the Student Competition of the Swiss Graduate Program FoMICS.
- Best poster award for Alfredo Hinojosa (EXAHD) at PhD Forum, ISC 2016, for his contribution "Tolerating Hard and Soft Faults with the Sparse Grid Combination Technique".
- Moritz Kreutzer and colleagues are among the best poster finalists at SC15, Austin, with their contribution "Efficient large-scale sparse eigenvalue computations on heterogeneous hardware".
- Best Poster Award for Daniel Rupprecht (ExaSolvers) for his contribution "Energy Efficiency of Parareal" at PASC, Zürich, 2015.
- Best Poster Award for Christoph Kowitz (EXAHD) for his contribution "The Sparse Grid Combination Technique for Solving Eigenvalue Problems" at SIAM CSE, Salt Lake City, 2015.
- EXAMAG PIs Springel & Klingenberg are awarded 92 million CPU hours on the new supercomputer HORNET at the HLRS in Stuttgart.
- Best paper award for Torsten Hoefler and colleagues (CATWALK) at SC13, Denver, 2013, for his contribution "Enabling Highly-Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided".
- Codes by Terra-Neo (prototype implementation), ExaSolvers (PFASST+PMG), EXASTEEL (FE2TI), and EXA-DUNE (MuPhi/dune-istl) are part of the High-Q Club.
