| 2018 | Best Paper Award for Joseph Schuart at the International Workshop on OMP 2018 |
| 2017 | Hyperion Annual Innovation Excellence Award for the movie “Maya Bee” done at HLRS |
| 2016 | Best Paper Award for Huan Zhou at the Fourth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR) |
| 2015 | HPCwire Reader´s Choice Award 2015 ‘Best Use of HPC In Automotive’ for HLRS using DDN storage to run 1,000 crash simulations within 24 hours |
| 2014 | Award for the HLRS project ‘Simulated Worlds’ as ‘Especially Award-worthy’ by the foundation of education from Kreissparkasse for the district of Esslingen |
| 2014 | Honorary professorship from the Russian Academy of Sciences for the director of the HLRS Michael Resch |
| 2013 | Readers' Choice Award 2013 of HOCwire for best use of HPC application in Manufacturing |
| 2013 | 2nd place at the Bosch foundation award ‘School meets Science’ for the HLRS project ‘Simulated Worlds’ |
| 2012 | ‘Übermorgenmacherpreis’ Day-after-tomorrow-maker-award of Baden-Württemberg for the director of HLRS Michael Resch |
| 2011 | Honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences for the director of the HLRS Michael Resch |
| 2010 | ITEA Gold Award for the project ParMa |
| 2009 | Honorary doctorate of Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine for the director of the HLRS Michael Resch |
| 2007 | Invited Plenary talk (Invitation to plenary talk) in SC’07 Reno/ USA by the director of the HLRS Michael Resch |
| 2007 | Microsoft Award "Early Contributor to Microsoft's Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003" for Michael Resch |
| 2007 | Chosen location: Germany - country of ideas / Land der Ideen |
2003 | Winner of HPC challenge at SC'03 |
| 2000 | Best Paper Award for Michael Resch at HPCN'2000 |
| 1999 | US NSF Award for Real Distributed Supercomputing at SC'99: for the first linking of two computers between the US and Europe |