<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">The 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing<br class="">A Call for Nominations<br class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing <br class="">community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high <br class="">impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000. In the past, IEEE TCSC award of excellence were awarded to <br class="">Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, <br class="">Professor William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Professor Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) <br class="">in 2011, Professor David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012, Professor Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, <br class="">and Professor Yves Robert (UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2015.<br class=""><br class="">Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at <br class="">most one candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be <br class="">submitted online at: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tcscexcellence2015" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tcscexcellence2015</a><br class=""><br class="">A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details:<br class=""><br class="">1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles.<br class="">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.<br class="">3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements as well as significance and impact. <br class="">4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC, its mission and its activities.<br class="">5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. Endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's <br class="">technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC community. Names, affiliation, and email addresses of the endorsers should be provided. <br class="">An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions <br class="">as well as service to the TCSC community.<br class=""><br class="">Important Dates:<br class="">- Nomination Deadline: January 30, 2015<br class="">- Results Notification: March 02, 2015<br class=""><br class="">Award Selection Note: The award will presented at the 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2015) <br class="">to be held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China from May 4-7, 2014. The winner should be available to receive the award in person and present a keynote <br class="">talk at the CCGrid 2015 conference. For more information about the conference please see <a href="http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/" class="">http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/</a>.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC <br class="">Executive Committee.<br class=""><br class="">The selection committee for 2015 is composed of:<br class="">- Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA<br class="">- William Gropp, University of Illinois, USA<br class="">- Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China<br class="">- Dieter Kranzlmueller Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Germany<br class="">- Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan<br class="">- Yves Robert, UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France<br class="">- Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia<br class=""><br class="">Award Committee Co-Chairs:</div><div class="">- Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu)<br class="">- Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy (Email: beniamino.dimartino at unina dot it)<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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