Award year: 2024
Category: Other Award
Awarding organization: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Journal
In 2024, the paper “The Role of Idle Waves, Desynchronization, and Bottleneck Evasion in the Performance of Parallel Programs” by Ayesha Afzal, Georg Hager, and Gerhard Wellein was selected as the 2023 Best Paper Runner-Up Award winner by the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) journal. This prestigious award is given annually by the IEEE Computer Society to recognize the most outstanding papers published in TPDS, highlighting exceptional contributions to parallel and distributed computing research.
Published in IEEE TPDS, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 623–638, February 2023, the paper offers new insights into the dynamics of parallel program performance by analyzing phenomena such as idle waves, process desynchronization, and bottleneck evasion. The authors present a detailed exploration of how these effects propagate through large-scale systems and influence runtime behavior, resource utilization, and scalability. Their work advances the theoretical understanding of performance variability in parallel applications and provides a foundation for developing more robust performance models and optimization strategies. Being selected as the Runner-Up recognizes the paper’s scientific depth, methodological rigor, and its significant impact on the high-performance computing and parallel systems communities.
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