<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p class="MsoNormal">Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Nominations.</p></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div> The 2013 IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing<br> A Call for Nominations<br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>The IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing is awarded for significant </div><div>and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the </div><div>IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an </div><div>outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists </div><div>of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000. During 2008-2011, this honour was </div><div>presented as the IEEE Medal of Excellence. The past recipients of this IEEE </div><div>award are: Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, </div><div>Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, </div><div>Professor William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in </div><div>2010, Professor Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, and </div><div>Professor David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012.<br><br><br>Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or </div><div>may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate </div><div>for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member </div><div>in good standing. Nomination must be submitted online via the TCSC web page </div><div>(<a href="https://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/award_of_excellence">https://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/award_of_excellence</a>). A nomination application </div><div>(as a single PDF file) should contain the following details:</div><div><br>1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional </div><div> affiliations and titles.<br><br>2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most </div><div> salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award.<br><br>3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements as </div><div> well as significance and impact. (Max 2 page length)<br><br>4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions </div><div> to TCSC and its community activities. (Max 2 page length)<br><br>5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least </div><div> endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The </div><div> endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions </div><div> as well as service to the TCSC and its community. It is nominator's responsibility </div><div> to ensure that endorsement letters are submitted on/before the application deadline.<br><br><br>Important Dates:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Nomination Deadline: January 07, 2013<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Results Notification: February 01, 2013<br><br><br>Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, </div><div>leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Executive Committee. The selection </div><div>committee member cannot be a nominator or endorser.<br><br><br>Award Presentation Note: The award will presented at the 13th IEEE/ACM International </div><div>Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013) to be held in Delft, </div><div>Netherlands from May 13-16, 2013. The winner should be available to receive the award </div><div>in person and present a keynote talk at the CCGrid 2013 conference. For more information </div><div>about the conference please see <a href="http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/ccgrid2013/">http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/ccgrid2013/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><br>Chair:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA<br> (Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Selection Committee:</div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>David Abramson</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Monash University, Australia<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Rajkumar<span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span>Buyya,<span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span>The University of Melbourne, Australia<div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Jack</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Dongarra,</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Tennessee, USA</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>William Gropp,</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Illinois, USA</span><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dieter Kranzlmueller</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Germany</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Satoshi Matsuoka</span>, Tokyo Institute of<span style="font-family: Helvetica; "> Technology, Japan</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Valerie Taylor,</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Texas A&M University, USA</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Albert Zomaya,</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Sydney, Australia</span></div></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">=============================================================<br>Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) <br>NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 <br>94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Phone: (848) 228-6474</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Fax: (732) 445-0593</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu<br>WWW: <a href="http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero">http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero</a><br>=============================================================</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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