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# User Prizes and Sites

## Prizes won by PETSc

- Selected by the DOE Office of Science for the 40th anniversary collection of 40 major papers that have changed the face of science: S. Balay, W.D. Gropp, L.C. McInnes, and B.F. Smith, Efficient management of parallelism in object-oriented numerical software libraries. Chapter 10 in E. Arge, A.M. Bruaset and H.P. Langtangen (Eds), Modern Software Tools in Scientific Computing, pp. 163-202 (1997) https://science.energy.gov/news/doe-science-at-40

- The PETSc Core Development Group won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering for 2015

- Jed Brown won a 2014 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Early Career Researcher) in part for his work on PETSc.

- Jed Brown won the 2014 SIAG/Supercomputing Junior Scientist Prize in part for his work on PETSc.

- Lois Curfman McInnes and Barry Smith won the 2011 Department of Energy E. O. Lawrence Award for contributions to DOE for their work developing PETSc in the mid-1990s.

- PETSc was a winner of a 2009 R and D 100 Award

- PETSc was one of the Top Ten Advances in Computational Science Accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2008

## Prizes won by PETSc users

- Gordon Bell Prize at SC2016 – For 10M-Core Scalable Fully-Implicit Solver for Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Dynamics

- Gordon Bell Prize at SC2015 – An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth’s Mantle

- Gordon Bell Finalist at SC2009

- GTC was listed as one of the Top Ten Advances in Computational Science Accomplishments of DOE in 2008

- Gordon Bell Special Prize at SC2004

- Gordon Bell Special Prize at SC2003

- Best Student Paper at SC2003

- Best Student Paper at SC2002

- Outstanding Student Paper, American Geophysical Union 2002 Annual meeting

- Gordon Bell Special Prize at SC1999

- Mark Adams, Best Student Paper Competition, 5th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, 1998

- Hundreds of theses prepared using PETSc

## Industrial/DOE PETSc user sites over the years

- Shell Research

- Boeing Research

- GM Research

- PPPL

- LANL

- SNL

- PNNL

- LLNL

- ANL

## DOE CSGF Users of PETSc

- Allison Baker, University of Colorado at Boulder

- Jaydeep Bardhan, MIT

- Paul Bauman, UT Austin

- Ethan Coon, Columbia University

- Larisa Goldmints, CMU

- Boyce Griffith, New York University

- Glenn Hammond, University of Illinois

- Judith Hill, Carnegie Mellon

- Nick Jovanovic, Yale University

- Richard Katz, Columbia University

- Mary Ann Leung, University of Washington

- Richard Mills, William and Mary