Cray Research, Inc., and an early pioneer of
supercomputing
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. Cray was an American
electrical engineer
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and
supercomputer
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architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded
Cray Research
Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. Several Cray supercomputer systems are listed i ...
which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. He played a key role in the invention and design of the UNIVAC 1103, a landmark high-speed computer and the first computer available for commercial use.
In 1972 the IEEE presented Cray with the
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
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for his contributions to large-scale computer design and the development of multiprocessing systems. One year after Cray's death in 1996, IEEE created the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award in honor of his creative spirit. The award is one of the 12 technical awards sponsored by the IEEE computer society as recognition given to pioneers in the field of computer science and engineering. The winner receives a crystal memento,
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10,000 honorarium.
The first recipient, in 1999, was
John Cocke.
Nomination and Ceremony
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The annual nomination deadline is July 1. Anyone may nominate a candidate, although self-nomination is not allowed. A candidate must receive at least three nominations to be considered by the award committee. Nominations should be prepared and submitted through the IEEE official website.
The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award presentation and reception are held at the
SC conference, the international conference for high-performance computing networks, storage, and analysis. The conference is sponsored by the ACM (
Association for Computing Machinery
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) and the IEEE Computer Society. It is held annually in mid-November. Several other IEEE sponsored awards are presented at the same event, including the
ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the
ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award, the
ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship, the
ACM SIGHPC / Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowships, the
IEEE-CS Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the
IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award.
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Gordon Bell Prize
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References
External links
* {{official website, https://www.computer.org/web/awards/cray, Official web page
Cray
Computer science awards
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