HPDC 2024 Achievement Award

We are happy to announce that Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale is the recipient of the 2024 Achievement Award in High Performance Distributed Computing.

Citation: For pioneering development of task-based adaptive parallel programming models and runtime systems, leading to a new category of highly scalable scientific applications.

Dr. Kale will deliver a keynote address and be recognized at the HPDC 2024 conference in Pisa, Italy.

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Dr. Kale is currently Research Professor & Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. As the director of the Parallel Programming Laboratory, he led the development of a number of languages and systems for parallel programming, most notably the Charm++ system for adaptive task based programming. Charm++ enabled the development of highly scalable parallel applications, such as the NAMD molecular dynamics framework. As of 2024, his work has been cited over 42,000 times with an h-index of 69. Dr. Kale has also been recognized as a fellow of the ACM, a fellow of the IEEE, and received the Gordon Bell prize in 2002 and the Sidney Fernbach award in 2012.


Past Winners
  • 2023: Manish Parashar, for pioneering contributions in high performance parallel and distributed computational methods, data management, in-situ computing, and international leadership in cyberinfrastructure and translational computer science.
  • 2022: Franck Cappello, for his pioneering contributions in methods, tools, and testbeds for resilient high performance parallel and distributed computing.
  • 2021: Rosa M. Badia, for her innovations in parallel task-based programming models, workflow applications and systems, and leadership in the high performance computing research community.
  • 2020: No award made.
  • 2019: Geoffrey Fox, for his foundational contributions to parallel computing, high-performance software, the interface between applications and systems, contributions to education, and outreach to underrepresented communities.
  • 2018: Satoshi Matsuoka, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and application of high performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed systems.
  • 2017: David Abramson, for his pioneering research in the design, implementation, and application of high performance systems and software tools for parallel and distributed systems.
  • 2016: Jack Dongarra, for his long-standing and far-reaching contributions in high performance linear algebra and large-scale parallel and distributed computing.
  • 2015: Ewa Deelman, for her significant influence, contributions, and distinguished use of workflow systems in high-performance computing.
  • 2014: Rich Wolski, for pioneering and high-impact contributions to grid, cloud, and parallel computing.
  • 2013: Miron Livny, for his significant contribution and high impact in the area of high-throughput computing.
  • 2012: Ian Foster, for his initiative in the creation and development of grid computing and his significant contributions to high-performance distributed computing in support of the sciences.