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Christie Louis Alappat wins the SC18 ACM Student Research Competition Award

Picture (c) SC Conference. Used with permission.

Our PhD student Christie Louis Alappat just took first place in the ACM Student Research Competition at SC18. His work revolved around the “Recursive Algebraic Coloring Engine,” which is a new method and library for hardware-efficient graph coloring. This means that he will advance to the grand finale next year. Congratulations!

Christie’s project is part of the activities in ESSEX-II, a project funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) within the priority programme SPPEXA.

As part of the competition, Christie has prepared a video with details about his work:

 

SC18 incoming!

This year at SC18 in Dallas, TX, members of our group will be part of numerous contributions:

And finally, we are part of the activities at the LRZ booth (#1841), where “Bits, Bytes, Brezel & Bier – Supercomputing in Bavaria” is on the agenda. Drop by during the opening gala to chat and get your share of Bavarian (and Franconian) ambience.

A LIKWID bouquet

The note says: “For the name ‘LIKWID’ – because it keeps conjuring a smile on my lips.”

Just got this from an anonymous fan. The note says: “For the name ‘LIKWID’ – because it keeps conjuring a smile on my lips.” You’re most welcome, whoever you are.

For those who don’t know, LIKWID is our multicore performance tool suite. I’m not a developer (Thomas Gruber [né Röhl] does the hard work there), but I happen to be the one who came up with the acronym: “Like I Knew What I’m Doing.”