NCSA staff members Michael Norman, Greg Bryan, and John Shalf brought home the Third Annual High Performance Computing Challenge Award for Best Integration of Heterogeneous Applications from SC'95.
NCSA was one of four supercomputing centers and several research agencies sponsoring researchers in the Supercomputing '95 High Performance Computing Challenge. The contest featured 10 groups of researchers seeking to outdo each other in the race for the first teraflops application.
The goal of researchers participating in the HPC Challenge was to assemble the greatest amount of computing power and speed in running a single scientific application. A demonstration of the Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium (GC3), the winning entry was funded by NSF.
NCSA research scientist and GC3 member Mike Norman, NCSA graduate research assistant Greg Bryan, and NCSA research programmer John Shalf used multi-supercomputing power in their simulation of galaxy collisions, titled "Galaxies Collide on the I-WAY: An Example of Wide-Area Collaborative Computing." Collaborators from other GC3 institutions were John Dubinski and Lars Hernquist, University of CaliforniaŠSanta Cruz; Dennis Gannon, Kate Keahey, and Shelby Yang, Indiana University; and Joel Welling, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
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