PETSc: Prizes

# PETSc

# User Prizes and Sites

- The PETSc Core Development Group won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering for 2015
- Jed Brown won a 2014 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researcher) in part for his work on PETSc.
- Jed Brown won the 2014 SIAG/Supercomputing Junior Scientist Prize in part for his work on PETSc.
- Lois Curfman McInnes and Barry Smith won the 2011 Department of Energy E. O. Lawrence Award for contributions to DOE for their work developing PETSc in the mid-1990s.
- PETSc was a winner of a 2009 R and D 100 Award
- PETSc was one of the Top Ten Advances in Computational Science Accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2008
- Prizes won by PETSc users
  - Gordon Bell Prize at SC2015 -- An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle
  - Gordon Bell Finalist at SC2009
  - GTC was listed as one of the Top Ten Advances in Computational Science Accomplishments of of DOE in 2008
  - Gordon Bell Special Prize at SC2004
  - Gordon Bell Special Prize at SC2003
  - Best Student Paper at SC2003
  - Best Student Paper at SC2002
  - Outstanding Student Paper, American Geophysical Union 2002 Annual meeting
  - Gordon Bell Special Prize at SC1999
  - Mark Adams, Best Student Paper Competition, 5th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, 1998
- Number of theses prepared using PETSc: (19)
- Industrial/DOE PETSc user sites
  - Shell Research, Boeing Research, GM Research
  - PPPL, LANL, SNL, PNNL, LLNL, ANL
- DOE CSGF Users of PETSc
  - Allison Baker, University of Colorado at Boulder
  - Jaydeep Bardhan, MIT
  - Paul Bauman, UT Austin
  - Ethan Coon, Columbia University
  - Larisa Goldmints, CMU
  - Boyce Griffith, New York University
  - Glenn Hammond, University of Illinois
  - Judith Hill, Carnegie Mellon
  - Nick Jovanovic, Yale University
  - Richard Katz, Columbia University
  - Mary Ann Leung, University of Washington
  - Richard Mills, William and Mary
- Commercial software that utilizes PETSc
  - Fluent's finite element CFD code FiDAP 8.5
  - Staar Inc.'s RF3P-A Parallel Driven Frequency Electromagnetic Solver