PETSc: Prizes

Selected by the DOE Office of Science for the 40th anniversary collection of 40 major papers that have changed the face of science: S. Balay, W.D. Gropp, L.C. McInnes, and B.F. Smith, "Efficient management of parallelism in object-oriented numerical software libraries." Chapter 10 in E. Arge, A.M. Bruaset and H.P. Langtangen (Eds), Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing, pp. 163-202 (1997) https://science.energy.gov/news/doe-science-at-40
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 SC2016 -- For 10M-Core Scalable Fully-Implicit Solver for Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Dynamics
- 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

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