Al's Wall of Awards

Dang Al haven't you got better things to do than win awards? yes.

2002 Named Corporate Fellow at ORNL

- Designation as a Corporate Fellow is made on a limited basis to recognize exceptionally gifted individuals throughout the organization for their technical achievement in science or engineering. Staff members are honored for excellence and accomplishments in their professional careers. Corporate fellowships characterize innovation, dedication, and significance of extraordinary contributions to research and development.

2001 Energy 100 Award for Electronic Notebook Software

- one of the top 100 discoveries and innovations from the Department of Energy that have resulted in improvements for American consumers between 1973-2000.

2001 Energy 100 Award for PVM

- one of the top 100 discoveries and innovations from the Department of Energy that have resulted in improvements for American consumers between 1973-2000.

1997 AMSE Tribute to Tennessee Technology Award in Advanced Computation

- for technological achievement in distributed computing software.

1994 R&D 100 Award for PVM 3

- "one of the most technologically significant products of the year"

1990 Gordon Bell Prize - Price/performance category.

1990 IBM Supercomputing Competition

- First prize Scientific Excellence in Supercomputing.

1990 CRAY Gigaflop Award

- for superconductivity calculations on YMP.

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1996 Supercomputing'96 High Performance Challenge Two Awards!

- GOLD medal in category of Concurrency for First Principals Modeling of Ferromagnetic Alloys.

- SILVER medal in category of Innovation for CUMULVS demonstration of Dynamically Reconfigurable 3-D Viscous Flow Calculations.

1995 Supercomputing'95 High Performance Challenge - user interface and reliability.

1993 Supercomputing'93 Heterogeneous Challenge - most elegant interface.

1992 Supercomputing'92 Heterogeneous Challenge - most heterogeneous.

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2017 Significant Achievment award for the Exascale Computing Project

2015 Significant Achievment award for the Summit Supercomputer Acquisition Project

2009 Award for rapidly developing the Institute for Advanced Architecture Algorithm Team between ORNL and Sandia

2006 Award for mentoring Research Alliance in Math and Science (RAMS) summer interns

2004 Significant Achievment award for helping create the National Leadership Computing Facility at ORNL

2000 Significant Achievment award

1999 Significant Achievment award for work on the Simmulation Science Initiative.

1998 Significant Achievment award for Electronic Notebook development, and demo to VP Gore.

1996 Division Director's Award. - for outstanding work in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division.

1992 MMES technical achievment award.

1991 Significant Achievment award for PVM development,

1990 Significant Achievment award for 1.6 Gflop HiTc code,

1987 MMES publication award,

1986 Significant Achievment award for parallel algorithm development,