PRACE Summer of HPC 2015 Award Winners

It is our pleasure to announce the two young researchers, recognised for their outstanding performance in the PRACE Summer of HPC 2015 programme.

On 15 December 2015 the SoHPC awards ceremony took place at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Spain where dr. Oriol Pineda, PRACE Member of the Board of Directors,  presented awards to Alberto García García from Spain and to Simos Kazantzidis from Greece.

Award winners Alberto García García and Simos Kazantzidis with dr. Oriol Pineda, PRACE Member of the Board of Directors and dr. Leon Kos, University of Ljubljana, PRACE SoHPC 2015 Coordinator

PRACE HPC Ambassador Award

Alberto excelled in composing well-written blog posts that achieved a huge reach on a variety of social media channels, and doubled the SoHPC YouTube views. He also presented his results in a unique and interesting way that was clear, concise and entertaining for the target audience. His overall work on leading edge technology was of a very high quality.

Read more about Alberto at: https://summerofhpc.prace-ri.eu/participants-2015-albert-garcia/

See Alberto’s visualization below:

Best Visualisation Award
Simos achieved an elegant visualisation with an original combination of representations, creating an impressive and usable front-end with a combination of charts and 3D representations of molecules. The combination of 2D and 3D representations side by side, the interactivity and the effective use of colour produced a user interface that demonstrated routine ease of use for end users. Overall, his visualisation was of a high quality and represented an excellent technical achievement. See Simos’s winning visualization below:

Read more about Simos at: https://summerofhpc.prace-ri.eu/participants-2015-simos-kazantzidis/

Congratulations

“We are very proud of the outstanding achievements by these young researchers,” says Dr. Leon Kos, University of Ljubljana, PRACE SoHPC 2015 Coordinator. “The PRACE SoHPC Awards Ceremony is an excellent opportunity to showcase these outstanding results. No doubt that this will be an important milestone in the careers of these young scientists.”

Congratulations to Alberto and Simos on their awards and congratulations to all the other participants in the programme for their excellent work. The SoHPC team wishes everyone all the best in their future work.

PRACE Summer of HPC 2016 is getting ready!

If you would like to spend the summer working abroad at an European High Performance Computing (HPC) Centre stay tuned for further information on opening date for applications.