User Prizes and Sites

Prizes won by PETSc

• 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