Proceedings & Award Winners – PEARC Conference Series

Explore the legacy of the PEARC conference through the conference proceedings and collection of awards from each conference year.

Proceedings

The ACM Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference Series is a community-driven effort that unites cyberinfrastructure and research computing practitioners, developers, and users by providing a forum for discussing ideas, findings, techniques, tools, and experiences. The PEARC Conference welcomes a broad range of participants and offers a diverse, equitable, and inclusive conference experience. PEARC encourages the submission of technical research papers, short papers, panels, workshops, and posters about topics that are of interest to the research computing community.

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PEARC Conference Proceedings (starting with 2017 to current year)

Award Winners

PEARC and ACM recognizes excellence through its eminent series of awards from best paper to best student paper to contributions in computer science and information technology. ACM also names as Fellows and Distinguished Members those members who, in addition to professional accomplishments, have made significant contributions to ACM’s mission.

Award categories

The Phil Andrews Award: The PEARC Executive Committee dedicates its flagship award to Dr. Phil Andrews (1956-2011). A pioneer in advanced computing infrastructure for more than 25 years, Phil brought tremendous passion and creative energy to NICS, PSC, SDSC, TeraGrid and XSEDE. With degrees in physics, mathematics, and plasma physics from Cambridge, Purdue, and Princeton Universities. He was experienced in artificial intelligence, visualization, archiving, digital libraries, and computational medicine. During his career, Andrews authored approximately 40 papers on distributed and data-intensive computing and visualization techniques, theoretical plasma physics and nonlinear dynamics. The award has been made for a paper submission deemed to be most influential and impactful within its area of research computing, broadly interpreted, including leading-edge scientific research as well as the development of innovative computational techniques. Determination of the Phil Andrews Most Transformative Contribution award is made by the Technical Program subcommittee jury from the best papers awarded in each of the technical tracks and therefore will represent “The Best of the Best.”
Best Paper Award: The winners of the best paper and honorable mention paper awards are selected by independent juries (separate ones for each conference track and for the Phil Andrews award) from among the most highly-rated papers in the conference’s peer review process. The juries deemed the winning manuscripts to be comprehensively well rounded, reflective of deep understanding of the subject areas discussed, and of very high quality overall. Multiple specific criteria were considered by the juries, depending on the track and topic of each paper, including potential influence on the state of the practice, potential impact on computation-based science, novelty, use of appropriate data and analysis methodologies, and clarity of presentation.
Best Poster Award: The winners of the best poster award are selected by independent juries from among the most highly-rated posters in the conference’s peer review process. The juries deemed the winning posters to be comprehensively well rounded, reflective of deep understanding of the subject areas presented, and of very high quality overall.
People’s Choice Visualization/Visualization Showcase Award: Awarded to the highest quality visualization.
Best Student Paper Award: The winners of the best paper are selected by independent juries from among the most highly-rated papers in the conference’s peer review process. The juries deemed the winning manuscripts to be comprehensively well rounded, reflective of deep understanding of the subject areas discussed, and of very high quality overall. Multiple specific criteria were considered by the juries, depending on the track and topic of each paper, including potential influence on the state of the practice, potential impact on computation-based science, novelty, use of appropriate data and analysis methodologies, and clarity of presentation. Papers must be primarily authored by students to qualify.
Best Student Poster Award: The winners of the best poster award are selected by independent juries from among the most highly-rated posters in the conference’s peer review process. The juries deemed the winning posters to be comprehensively well rounded, reflective of deep understanding of the subject areas presented, and of very high quality overall. Posters must be primarily authored by students to qualify.

2017 – 2024 Award Winners

PEARC 2024 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: BRICCs: Building Pathways to Research Cyberinfrastructure at UnderResourced Institutions
- Authors: Dhruva K. Chakravorty, Wesley A. Brashear, Sarah K. Janes, Tabitha Samuel, Ralph Zottola, Fidelis Ngang, Stephen Miller, Lisa M. Perez, and Honggao Liu
Best Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: A Model for Managing Multi-Tenant Research Databases
- Authors: Claudia M. Costa, Erick Carballo, Alan J. Walsh, and M. Esen Tuna
Best Short Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: Japper: A Comprehensive Framework for Streamlining Jupyter-Based Scientific Web Application Development
- Authors: I Luk Kim, Lan Zhao, Carol X. Song, Wei Siong Neo, and Bridgette L. Kelleher
Best Student Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: Benchmarking with Supernovae: A Performance Study of the FLASH Code
- Authors: Joshua Martin, Catherine Feldman, Eva Siegmann, Tony Curtis, David Carlson, Firat Coşkun, Daniel Wood, Raul Gonzalez, Robert J. Harrison, and Alan C. Calder
Best Student Short Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: PyMAGMA: A Python Interface for MAGMA
- Authors: Julian Halloy, Stephen Qiu, Stanimire Tomov, and Kwai Wong
Best Paper Award in “Systems and System Software” Track: Open OnDemand: Connecting Computing Power with Powerful Minds
- Authors: Alan Chalker, Jek Ohrstrom, Travis Ravert, Hazel Randquist, Matt Walton, Emily Mokat Sadeghi, Douglas Johnson, David Hudak, Julie Ma, Joseph P. White, Robert L. Deleon, and Lee Liming
Best Short Paper Award in “Systems and System Software” Track: The Evolving ERN Cryo-EM Federated Instrument Pilot Project
- Authors: Maureen Dougherty, James Barr von Oehsen, Jason Kaelber, Jeremy Schafer, D. Balamurugan, Morgan Ludwig, and John Goodhue
Best Student Paper Award in “Systems and System Software” Track: Research Collaboration Discovery through Neo4j Knowledge Graph
- Authors: Keller Smith, Fang Liu, Deepa Phanish, Heng-Ju Chen, Rickie Chen, and Didier Contis
Best Student Short Paper Award in “Systems and System Software” Track: Exploring Research Dataset-Sharing Strategies for Concurrent AI Workflows
- Authors: Yongnuo Yang, Fang Liu, Michael D. Weiner, Aaron Jezghani, J. Eric Coulter, Ruben Lara, Ronald Rahaman, Kenneth J. Suda, Jekrey Valdez, Dee Womack, and Dan Zhou
Best Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity and Education” Track: BRICCs: Building Pathways to Research Cyberinfrastructure at UnderResourced Institutions
- Authors: Dhruva K. Chakravorty, Wesley A. Brashear, Sarah K. Janes, Tabitha Samuel, Ralph Zottola, Fidelis Ngang, Stephen Miller, Lisa M. Perez, and Honggao Liu
Best Short Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity and Education” Track: Onboarding Research Computing and Data Professionals
- Authors: Gladys Andino, Scott L. Delinger, Jacob Fosso Tande, Timothy Middelkoop, Claire Mizumoto, David P. Reddy, and Michael D. Weiner
Best Student Short Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity and Education” Track: Engaging Secondary Students in Computing and Cybersecurity
- Authors: Sandra B. Nite, Trenton J. Gray, Seonhu Lee, and Sheri Stebenne
Best Poster/Student Poster Award: HPC Journey in a Resource Constrained Environment: A case of The African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data Intensive Science, Uganda
- Authors: Rodgers Kimera, Christopher J Whalen, and Matthew X. Economou

PEARC 2023 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: Insights from the HARP Framework: Using an AI-Driven Approach for Efficient Resource Allocation in HPC Scientific Workflows
- Authors: Manikya Swathi Vallabhajosyula and Rajiv Ramnath
Best Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: Airavata Metascheduler: A Reliable, Fault Tolerant, and Resource-Aware Job Scheduling Service
- Authors: Isuru Ranawaka, Eroma Abeysinghe, Dimuthu Wannipurage, Dinuka De Silva, Emre Brookes, Suresh Marru, Marcus Christie, Sudhakar Pamidighantam and Marlon Pierce
Best Short Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: Scalable and Reproducible Virtual Screening through an API-Integrated Workflow
- Authors: Tiffany Huff, Austin Darrow, Joshua Medina, Erik Ferlanti, James Carson, John Fonner, Sal Tijerina, Stanley J. Watowich and William J. Allen
Best Student Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: Efficient Parallelization of Dynamic Programming for Large Applications
- Authors: Matilda Ferguson, Lila Fontes and Tia Newhall
Best Student Short Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: A Further Study of Linux Kernel Hugepages on A64FX with FLASH, an Astrophysical Simulation Code
- Authors: Catherine Feldman, Smeet Chheda, Alan Calder, Eva Siegmann, John Dey, Tony Curtis and Robert Harrison
Best Paper Award in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: Active Research Data Management with the Django Globus Portal Framework
- Authors: Ryan Chard, Nickolaus Saint, Rafael Vescovi, Jim Pruyen, Ben Blaiszik, Kyle Chard and Ian Foster
Best Short Paper/Best Student Short Paper Award in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: Insights from the HARP Framework: Using an AI-Driven Approach for Efficient Resource Allocation in HPC Scientific Workflows
- Authors: Manikya Swathi Vallabhajosyula and Rajiv Ramnath
Best Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education” Track: Professionalization of Research Computing and Data: An Expanded Agenda
- Authors: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Timothy Middelkoop, Dana Brunson, Thomas Cheatham, Jacob Fosso Tande, Douglas Jennewein, Torey Battelle, Julie Ma, Lauren A. Michael, Henry Neeman and Patrick Schmitz
Best Short Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education” Track: Cyberinfrastructure deployments on public research clouds enable accessible Environmental Data Science education
- Authors: Tyler McIntosh, Erick Verleye, Jennifer Balch, Megan Cattau, Nayani Ilangakoon, Nathan Korinek, R. Chelsea Nagy, James Sanovia, Edwin Skidmore, Tyson Swetnam, Ty Tuff, Nathan Quarderer and Carol Wessman
Best Poster Award: Is Knowledge about Running Applications Helping Improve Runtime Prediction of HPC Jobs?
- Authors: Kevin Menear and Dmitry Duplyakin
Best Visualization: Visualizing the Origins, Itineraries, and Destinations of 94,910 Liberated African People (1807-1862)
- Author: John Mulligan
Best Visualization: Visualizing Megafires: How AI can be used to drive wildfire simulations with better predictive skill
- Authors: Scott Pearse, Amy DeCastro and Timothy Juliano
Best Student Poster Award: Youth Homelessness: Researching VR as a Tool for Empathy
- Authors: Edith Ameh and Anne Bowen

PEARC 2022 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: Understanding Factors that Influence Research Computing and Data Careers
- Authors: Shafaq Chaudhry, Arman Pazouki, Patrick Schmitz, Elizabett Hillery and Kerk Kee
Best Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: Performance Optimization of the Open XDMoD Datawarehouse
- Authors: Gregary Dean, Joshua Moraes, Joseph White, Robert Deleon, Matthew Jones and Thomas Furlani
Best Short Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: COSMO: A Research Data Service Portal and Experiences from the BlueTides Project
- Authors: Julian Uran, Nianyi Chen, Wanting Huang, Juan Puerto, Mei-Yu Wang, Yueying Ni, Paola Buitrago and Tiziana DiMatteo
Best Student Paper Award in “Applications and Software” Track: ScriptManager: An Interactive Platform for Reducing Barriers to Genomics Analysis
- Authors: Olivia Lang, B Franklin Pugh and William Km Lai
Best Paper Award in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: Migrating towards Single Sign-On and Federated Identity
- Authors: Jason Anderson and Kate Keahey
Best Short Paper Award in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: The ERN Cryo-EM Federated Instrument Pilot Project
- Authors: Maureen Dougherty, Michael Zink, Barr von Oehsen, Kenneth Dalenberg, Bala Desinghu, Jason Kaelber, Jeremy Schafer, John Goodhue, Wolf Hey, Morgan Ludwig, Boyd Wilson and Cole McKnight
Best Student Paper Award in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: High Performance MPI over the Slingshot Interconnect: Early Experiences
- Authors: Kawthar Shafie Khorassani, Chen Chun Chen, Bharath Ramesh, Aamir Shafi, Hari Subramoni and Dhabaleswar Panda
Best Student Short Paper Award in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: Artificial Intelligence to Classify and Detect Masquerading Users on HPC Systems from Shell Histories
- Authors: Kirby Kuznia, Dhruvil Shah, Gil Speyer and Jason Yalim
Best Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education” Track: Understanding Factors that Influence Research Computing and Data Careers
- Authors: Shafaq Chaudhry, Arman Pazouki, Patrick Schmitz, Elizabett Hillery and Kerk Kee
Best Short Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education” Track: SimVascular Gateway for Education and Research
- Authors: Justin Tran, Eroma Abeysinghe, John Ladisa, Alison Marsden and Marlon Pierce
Best Student Paper Award in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education” Track: Exchanging Best Practices for Supporting Computational and Data-Intensive Research, The Xpert Network
- Authors: Parinaz Barakhshan and Rudolf Eigenmann
Best Poster Award: Comparing GPU Effectiveness for UnifracDistance Compute
- Authors: Igor Sfiligoi, Rob Knight, Daniel McDonald, Tom DeFanti, Frank Würthwein, John Graham and Dima Mishin
Best Visualization Award: Effects of Blowing and Suction on the Turbulent Flow Around an Airfoil
- Authors: Wiebke Köpp, Marco Atzori, Mohamad Rezaei, Niclas Jansson, Ricardo Vinuesa, Erwin Laure, Philipp Schlatter and Tino Weinkauf
Best Student Poster Award: Integrative Design and Processing for Environment IoT and Microscopy Visualization
- Authors: Ribhav Jain, Steven Konstanty, Todd Nicholson, Zhe Yang, Patrick Su, Robert Kaufman and Klara Nahrstedt

PEARC 2021 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: Ensemble Prediction of Job Resources to Improve System Performance for Slurm-Based HPC Systems
- Authors: Mohammed Tanash, Huichen Yang, Daniel Andresen and William
Best Paper in “Applications and Software” Track: Practice Guideline for Heavy I/O Workloads with Lustre File Systems on TACC Supercomputers
- Authors: Si Liu, Lei Huang, Hang Liu, Amit Ruhela, Virginia Trueheart, Susan Lindsey and Quan Yuan
Best Paper in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: Ensemble Prediction of Job Resources to Improve System Performance for Slurm-Based HPC Systems
- Authors: Mohammed Tanash, Huichen Yang, Daniel Andresen and William Hsu
Best Paper in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, & Education” Track: Assessing the Landscape of Research Computing and Data Support
- Author: Patrick Schmitz
Best Short Paper in “Applications and Software” Track: Integrity Protection for Research Artifacts using Open Science Chain’s Command Line Utility
- Authors: Manu Shantharam, Kai Lin, Scott Sakai, and Subhashini Sivagnanam
Best Short Paper in “Systems and Systems Software” Track: Scalable Cloud-based Architecture to Deploy JupyterHub for Computational Social Science Research
- Authors: Da Li, Robert Pyke and Runchao Jiang
Best Short Paper in “Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, & Education” Track: The Connect.Cyberinfrastructure Portal – Creating Opportunities for Collaboration and Cohesion in the Research Computing Ecosystem
- Authors: Julie Ma, Torey Battelle, Eric Brown, Dana Brunson, Thomas Cheatham, John Goodhue, James Griffioen, Shelley Knuth, Timothy Middelkoop, Kaylea Nelson, Andrew Sherman, Scott Valcourt, Dhruva Chakravorty, Christopher Simmons, Douglas Jennewein, Sarah Akbar, Ermal Toto, Julia Sheats and Bj Lougee
Best Poster Award: Comparing GPU Effectiveness for Unifrac Distance Compute
- Authors: Igor Sfiligoi, Rob Knight, Daniel McDonald, Tom DeFanti, Frank Würthwein, John Graham and Dima Mishin
Visualization Showcase Award: Effects of Blowing and Suction on the Turbulent Flow Around an Airfoil
- Authors: Wiebke Köpp, Marco Atzori, Mohamad Rezaei, Niclas Jansson, Ricardo Vinuesa, Erwin Laure, Philipp Schlatter and Tino Weinkauf
Best Student Poster Award: Integrative Design and Processing for Environment IoT and Microscopy Visualization
- Authors: Ribhav Jain, Steven Konstanty, Todd Nicholson, Zhe Yang, Patrick Su, Robert Kaufman and Klara Nahrstedt

PEARC 2020 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: Monitoring and Analysis of Power Consumption on HPC clusters using XDMoD
- Authors: Joseph White, Martins Innus, Robert Deleon, Matthew D. Jones and Thomas Furlani
Best Paper in “Advanced research computing environments – systems and system software” Track: Monitoring and Analysis of Power Consumption on HPC clusters using XDMoD
- Authors: Joseph White, Martins Innus, Robert Deleon, Matthew D. Jones, and Thomas Furlani
Best Paper in “Application Software, Support, and Outcomes” Track: Tapis API Development with Python: Best Practices In Scientific REST API Implementation – Experience implementing a distributed Stream API
- Authors: Sean Cleveland, Anagha Jamthe, Smruti Padhy, Joe Stubbs, Julia Looney, Michale Packard, Steve Terry, Richard Cardone, Maytal Dahan, and Gwen Jacobs
Best Paper in “People involved in research computing – workforce development, diversity, and professionalization” Track: CyberAmbassadors: Results from Pilot Testing a New Professional Skills Curriculum
- Authors: Astri Briliyanti, Julie Wilson Rojewski, Katy Luchini-Colbry, and Dirk Colbry
Best Paper in “Trending now – machine learning and artificial intelligence” Track: Exploring collections of research publications with human steerable AI.
- Authors: Alberto González Martínez, Billy Troy Wooton, Nurit Kirshenbaum, Dylan Kobayashi, and Jason Leigh
Best Poster Award: Best Poster: Refactoring a statistical package for demanding memory loads: Adapting R for high performance telemetry data analytics
- Authors: Rebecca Belshe, Peter Schlichting, and Gil Speyer
Best Visualization Showcase Award: Exploration of Coral Reefs in Hawai‘i through Virtual Reality: Hawaiian Coral Reef Museum VR
- Authors: Francis Ray Cristobal, Michael Dodge, John Burns, Briana Noll, Nickolas Rosenberg, Joseph Sanchez, Kailey Pascoe, Alexandra Runyan, and Drew Gotshalk
Best Student Paper in “Advanced research computing environments – systems and system software” Track: Workflow Submit Nodes as a Service on Leadership Class Systems
- Authors: George Papadimitriou, Karan Vahi, Jason Kincl, Valentine Anantharaj, Ewa Deelman, and Jack Wells
Student paper – Honorable Mention in “Application Software, Support, and Outcomes” Track: VisSnippets: A Web-Based System for Impromptu Collaborative Data Exploration on Large Displays
- Authors: Andrew Burks, Luc Renambot, and Andrew Johnson
Best Student Paper in “Trending now – machine learning and artificial intelligence” Track: Evaluation of Clustering Techniques for GPS Phenotyping Using Mobile Sensor Data
- Authors: Zachary Tschirhart and Karl Schulz
Best Student Poster Award: Optimizing a Specialized Convolutional Neural Network
- Authors: Brian Leonard, Minyue Fan, and Joel S. Welling

PEARC 2019 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: A Novel Pruning Method for Convolutional Neural Networks Based off Identifying Critical Filters
- Authors: Mihaela Dimovska and Travis Johnston
The Phil Andrews Award: Integrity Protection for Scientific Workflow Data: Motivation and Initial Experiences
- Authors: Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman, Anirban Mandal, Ilya Baldin, Omkar Bhide, Randy Heiland, Von Welch, Raquel Hill, William L. Poehlman, and F. Alex Feltus
Best Paper in “Advanced Research Computing Software and Applications” Track: Integrity Protection for Scientific Workflow Data: Motivation and Initial Experiences
- Authors: Mats Rynge, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman, Anirban Mandal, Omkar Bhide, Randy Heiland, Von Welch, Raquel Hill, Ilya Baldin, William L. Poehlman, F. Alex Feltus
Best Paper in “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” Track: A Framework for Identifying Designs from Incomplete, Fragmented Cultural Heritage Objects using Curve Patterns
- Authors: Jun Zhou, Yuhang Lu, Karen Smith, Colin Wilder, Song Wang, Paul Sagona, Ben Torkian
Best Paper in “Facilitation of Advanced Research Computing” Track: A Continuous Integration-Based Framework for Software Management
- Authors: Samuel Khuvis, Zhi-Qiang You, Heechang Na, Scott Brozell, Eric Franz, Trey Dockendorf, Judith Gardiner, Karen Tomko
Best Paper in “Workforce Development and Diversity” Track: The Professionalization of CI Personnel
- Authors: Nicholas Berente, Stanley Ahalt, James Bottum, Dana Brunson, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, James Howison, John L. King, Henry Neeman, John Towns, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Susan Winter
Best Poster Award: Leveraging Public Cloud Services for CLIA-Certified Personalized Medicine Pipelines
- Author: Evan F. Bollig
Visualization Showcase Presentation Award: Flight Paths: Mapping Our Changing Neighborhoods
- Authors: David Bock and Elizabeth Wuerffel
Visualization Showcase Presentation Award: HiperViz: Interactive Visualization of CPU Temperatures in HPC Centers
- Authors: Ngan Nguyen and Tommy Dang
Best Student Paper in “Facilitation of Advanced Research Computing” Track: PULSAR: Deploying Network Monitoring and Intrusion Detection for the Science DMZ
- Authors: Shivam Trivedi, Lauren Featherstun, Nathan DeMien, Callum Gundlach, Sagar Narayan, Jacob Sharp, Brian Werts, Lipu Wu, Lev Gorenstein, Erik Gough, Xiao Zhu
Best Student Paper in “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” Track: A Novel Pruning Method for Convolutional Neural Networks Based off Identifying Critical Filters
- Authors: Mihaela Dimovska, Travis Johnston
Best Student Paper in “Advanced Research Computing Software and Application” Track: Shuffler: A Large Scale Data Management Tool for Machine Learning in Computer Vision
- Authors: Evgeny Toropov, Paola A. Buitrago, José Moura
Honorable Mention (Student category) in “Workforce Development and Diversity” Track: Integrating scientific programming in communities of practice for students in life science
- Authors: Alexa M. Salsbury, Anne M. Brown, Justin A. Lemkul
Best Student Poster Award: Reducing Faulty Jobs by Job Submission Verifier in Grid Engine
- Author: Misha Ahmadian

PEARC 2018 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: High Performance Photogrammetry for Academic Research
- Authors: Guangchen Ruan, Eric Wernert,Tassie Gniady, Esen Tuna, William Sherman
The Phil Andrews Award: Classification of Periodicity in Subtraction Game Sequences
- Authors: Nicole Brewer, Mark Daniel Ward
Best Paper Award: Brown Dog: Making the Digital World a Better Place,a Few Files at a Time
- Authors: Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Jay Alameda, Shannon Bradley, Michael Dietze, Benjamin Galewsky, Gregory Jansen, Rob Kooper, Praveen Kumar, Jong Lee, Richard Marciano, Luigi Marini, Barbara Minsker, Christopher Navarro, Arthur Schmidt, Marcus Slavenas, William Sullivan, Bing Zhang, Yan Zhao, Inna Zharnitsky, Kenton McHenry
Best Poster Award: Scaling JupyterHub Using Kubernetes on Jetstream Cloud: Platform as a Service for Research and Educational Initiatives in the Atmospheric Sciences
- Authors: Semir Sarajlic, Julien Chastang, Suresh Marru, Jeremy Fischer, Mike Lowe
Best Student Paper Award: Using Immersive Visualization Environments to Engage Students in Hands-on Learning
- Authors: Hannah Ricketts, Alexa Salsbury,David Bevan, Anne Brown
Best Student Poster Award: The Influence of Cyber-Infrastructure on Scientific Computing at NMSU
- Authors: Mohammed Tanash, Matt Henderson, PoChou Su,Tracey Fernandez, Z. M. Saifullah, Robert Kelly, Jelena Karapetrovic, Hussein Al-Azzawi, Diana V. Dugas

PEARC 2017 Award Winners

The Phil Andrews Award: Stampede 2: The Evolution of an XSEDE Supercomputer
- Authors: Bill Barth, Niall Gaffney, Kelly Gaither, Chris Hempel, Susan Mehringer, Tommy Minyard, D.K Panda, Dan Stanzione, Pat Teller, Henry Tufo, Eric Wernert
Best Software and Data Paper: Data access for LIGO on the OSG
- Authors: Brian Bockelman, Duncan Brown, Peter Couvares, Edgar Hernandez, Derek Weitzel, Frank Wurthwein
Best Accelerating Discovery in Scholarly Research Paper: Extracting Meaningful Data from Decomposing Bodies
- Authors: Alison Langmead, Paul Rodriguez, Sandeep Satheesan, Alan Craig
Best Workforce Diversity and Evaluation Paper: Advanced Computing for Social Change—Educating and Engaging Our Students to Compete in a Changing Workforce
- Authors: Linda Akli, Marques Bland, Susan Fratkin, Kelly Gaither, Rosalia Gomez, Ruby Mendenhall
Best Poster: Advancing the representation of Women in HPC at Purdue University
- Authors: Gladys K. Andino, Marisa Brazil, Michael Gribskov, Preston Smith
People’s Choice Visualization Award: CESM Wind Speed Magnitude
- Author: Matt Rehme
Best Student Poster: How Curvature Regulates Cell Migration
- Authors: Xiuxiu He, Yi Jiang
Best Student Paper: A real-time machine learning and visualization framework for scientific workflows
- Authors: Feng Li, Fengguang Song