Best Paper/Poster Award

Best Paper Award (Sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy):

Winner:

Accelerating Irregular Computations with Hardware Transactional Memory and Active Messages
Maciej Besta (ETH Zurich), Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich)

Best Paper Award

Also nominated:

Turning Centralized Coherence and Distributed Critical-Section Execution on their Head: A New Approach for Scalable Distributed Shared Memory
Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University), David Klaftenegger (Uppsala University), Magnus Norgren (Uppsala University), Alberto Ros (Universidad de Murcia), Konstantinos Sagonas (Uppsala University)

A Multi-platform Study of I/O Behavior on Petascale Supercomputers
Huong Luu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Robert Ross (Argonne National Laboratory), Philip Carns (Argonne National Laboratory), Kevin Harms (Argonne National Laboratory), Mr Prabhat (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Yushu Yao (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Optimizing Grouped Aggregation in Geo-Distributed Streaming Analytics
Benjamin Heintz (University of Minnesota), Abhishek Chandra (University of Minnesota), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Best Presentation Award (Sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy):

Winner (full papers):

Best Full Presentation Award

Winner (short papers):

A Case for Transforming Parallel Run-times Into Operating System Kernels
Kyle C. Hale (Northwestern University), Peter Dinda (Northwestern University)

Best Short Presentation Award

Best Poster Award (Sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy):

Winner:

A Prototype for Fine-grained Application Power/Performance Monitoring and Analysis
Amir Farzad (University Of Oregon), Boyana Norris (University Of Oregon) and Mohammad Rashti (RNET Technologies, Inc.)