------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 2013 IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing A Call for Nominations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000. During 2008-2011, this honour was presented as the IEEE Medal of Excellence. The past recipients of this IEEE award are: Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, Professor William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Professor Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, and Professor David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be submitted online via the TCSC web page (https://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/award_of_excellence). A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements as well as significance and impact. (Max 2 page length) 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC and its community activities. (Max 2 page length) 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC and its community. It is nominator's responsibility to ensure that endorsement letters are submitted on/before the application deadline. Important Dates: Nomination Deadline: January 07, 2013 Results Notification: February 01, 2013 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Executive Committee. The selection committee member cannot be a nominator or endorser. Award Presentation Note: The award will presented at the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013) to be held in Delft, Netherlands from May 13-16, 2013. The winner should be available to receive the award in person and present a keynote talk at the CCGrid 2013 conference. For more information about the conference please see http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/ccgrid2013/. Chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu) Selection Committee: David Abramson Monash University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA William Gropp, University of Illinois, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Dieter Kranzlmueller Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Germany Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia ============================================================================= -- ========================================================================== Manish Parashar Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628 RDI2/CAC/Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engr. Phone: (732) 445-5388 Rutgers University Fax: (732) 445-0593 94 Brett Road Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 WWW: http://parashar.rutgers.edu ===========================================================================