Golden Spike Award
For the 15th time in the history of HLRS, 
the national research community using the HPC computing resources of HLRS met in Stuttgart-Vaihingen for the annual „HLRS Results and Review Workshop“. During the two day event, the participants were given the opportunity to present and discuss the research projects they had been working on over the last 12 months. Of all projects presented at the HLRS Results and Review Workshop, the steering committee of HLRS chose three particularly excellent ones to honor them with a special trophy: The HLRS Golden Spike Award.
At this year’s event, a total of 23 talks plus 19 poster presentations had made it on the agenda of the review workshop hoping to be considered for the annual Golden Spike Award. Decision criteria for the selection of the three outstanding research projects include:
o Scientific relevance (top in their research field)
o Imperative of high performance computing for their research
o Optimal usage of HPC equipment in terms of optimization, parallelization and overall performance
o Presentation format of the results at the Review Workshop
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Heinrich Kröner of University of Freiburg, Co-Chairman of the HLRS steering committee, announced the following three research projects as winners of the 2012 Golden Spike Awards:
o Spinodal Decomposition Kinetics of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures Including Hydrodynamic Interactions
Alexander Winkler, Peter Virnau and Kurt Binder
(Institute of Physics, KOMET 331, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
o Effects of an Oblique Roughness on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition
Gordon Groskopf and Markus J. Kloker
(Institute of Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics, University of Stuttgart)
o A Particle-in-Cell Method to Model the Influence of Partial Melt on Mantle Convection
Ana-Catalina Plesa, Doris Breuer and Tilman Spohn
(Institute of Planetology, University of Münster)
From left: HLRS Steering Committee member Professor Dr.-Ing. Karl Schweizerhof (University of Karlsruhe) with Golden Spike awardees Mr. Alexander Winkler (University of Mainz), Mr. Gordon Groskopf (University of Stuttgart) and Ms. Ana-Catalina Plesa (University of Münster/DLR Berlin). Right: Professor Dr. Dietmar Heinrich Kröner (University of Freiburg), Co-Chairman of the HLRS Steering Committee.
For a complete list of all Golden Spike Award Recipients, please click here
The Golden Spike Award winners will publish a detailed project report in the upcoming InSiDE magazine to be issued in Spring 2013.
All of the HLRS Review Workshop participants will have their scientific projects published in the conference proceedings which will be published in late 2012:
High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering '12
Transactions of the High Performance Computing Center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2012
Wolfgang. E. Nagel, Dietmar H. Kröner, Michael M. Resch (Editors)
Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, in press,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
ISBN 978-3-642-33373-6
ISBN 978-3-642-33374-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/ 978-3-642-33374-3
For a complete list of all Golden Spike Award Recipients, please click here