PEARC17 wrapped up today with an awards luncheon. Awards were presented by Maytal Dahan, Technical Program Chair, and Alana Romanella, Student Program Chair.
The Phil Andrews Best Technology Paper
Stampede 2: The Evolution of an XSEDE Supercomputer
Bill Barth, Niall Gaffney, Kelly Gaither, Chris Hempel, Susan Mehringer, Tommy Minyard, D.K Panda, Dan Stanzione, Pat Teller, Henry Tufo, Eric Wernert.
Pictured, from left: Maytal Dahan, Tech Program Chair, Eric Wernert, Susan Mehringer, Kelly Gaither, Dave Hart, PEARC17 General Chair.
Best Software and Data Paper
Data access for LIGO on the OSG
Brian Bockelman, Duncan Brown, Peter Couvares, Edgar Hernandez, Derek Weitzel (pictured below), Frank Wurthwein

Best Accelerating Discovery in Scholarly Research Paper
Extracting Meaningful Data from Decomposing Bodies
Alison Langmead, Paul Rodriguez (pictured, right), Sandeep Satheesan, Alan Craig (pictured)
Best Workforce Diversity and Evaluation Paper
Advanced Computing for Social Change—Educating and Engaging Our Students to Compete in a Changing Workforce
Linda Akli, Marques Bland, Susan Fratkin, Kelly Gaither (pictured), Rosalia Gomez, Ruby Mendenhall
Best PEARC17 Poster
Advancing the representation of Women in HPC at Purdue University
Gladys K. Andino, Marisa Brazil (pictured), Michael Gribskov, Preston Smith

People’s Choice Visualization Award
CESM Wind Speed Magnitude
Matt Rehme

Best Student Poster
How Curvature Regulates Cell Migration
Xiuxiu He, Yi Jiang
Best Student Paper
A real-time machine learning and visualization framework for scientific workflows
Feng Li, Fengguang Song
Feng LI is pictured here with Alana Romanella, Student Program Chair (left), and Dave Hart (right).