The selection of the Best Paper Award at CUG 2009 proved to be very difficult as all papers submitted were of excellent quality and content. As of the time of the deadline, there were 46 papers to review and consider for the Award. The papers were reviewed by 6 judges over the course of 5 days. The selection process reduced the papers down to three finalists and the eventual selection of one of these as the winner. It is with great pleasure that I announce the Best Paper Award Winner and Finalists.

Congratulations

Nicholas P. Cardo
Vice-President and Program Chair

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Best Paper

A Generalized Framework for Auto-tuning Stencil Computations (slides)

Shoaib Kamil, CRD/NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley
Cy Chan, CRD/NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Samuel Williams, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Mark Howison, E. Wes Bethel, and Prabhat, CRD/NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The two finalists were

Communication Characteristics and Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Parallel Programming on Clusters of Multi-core SMP Nodes (slides)

Georg Hager, Erlangen Regional Computing Center
Gabriele Jost, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Rolf Rabenseifner, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)

Deploying Server-side File System Monitoring at NERSC (slides)

Andrew Uselton, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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