Visiting Researchers Win Best Paper at HPCS 2016

Two ICES visiting scholars won best paper at the 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation.

Anne Elster, an ICES Visiting Research Fellow from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and her Ph.D. student Thomas Falch, an ICES Visiting Scholar, were recognized for their paper "ImageCL: An Image Processing Language for Performance Portability on Heterogeneous Systems."

The paper was recognized for its significance, scientific quality, timeliness, and relevance.

Elster is professor of high-performance computing in the Department of Computer & Information Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, where she is heading the Heterogeneous and Parallel Computing Lab. Her research interests are in parallel and heterogeneous computing, including GPU computing, and tools for program optimization. She started her research career at Cornell University where she earned her master's degree in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1994. She is a senior member of IEEE and a CUDA book author.