Satoshi Matsuoka

For long-term global leadership in supercomputing system design, such as TSUBAME and Fugaku.

David B. Kirk

For outstanding leadership in developing GPU computing and in engendering its rise to the mainstream of HPC.

David Shaw

For the design of special-purpose supercomputers for biomolecular simulations.

William Camp

For visionary leadership of the Red Storm project, and for decades of leadership of the HPC community.

Mateo Valero

In recognition of seminal contributions to vector, out-of-order, multithreaded, and VLIW architectures.

Gordon Bell

For his exceptional contributions in designing and bringing several computer systems to market that changed the world of high performance computing and of computing in general, the two most important of these being the PDP-6 and the VAX-11/780.

Marc Snir

For contributions to the research, development, theory, and standardization of high-performance parallel computing including the IBM RS/6000 SP and Blue Gene systems.

Peter M. Kogge

For innovations in advanced computer architecture and systems.

Charles L. Seitz

For innovations in high-performance message passing architectures and networks.

Alan Gara

For innovations in low power, densely packaged supercomputing systems.

Kenichi Miura

For leadership in developing groundbreaking vector supercomputing hardware and software.

Steve Wallach

For contribution to high-performance computing through design of innovative vector and parallel computing systems, notably the Convex mini-supercomputer series, a distinguished industrial career and acts of public service.

Kenneth E. Batcher

For fundamental theoretical and practical contributions to massively parallel computation, including parallel sorting algorithms, interconnection networks, and pioneering designs, of the STARAN and MPP computers.

Tadashi Watanabe

For serving as lead designer of the NEC SX series of supercomputers, and especially for the design of the Earth Simulator, which was the world?s fastest supercomputer from 2002 to 2004.

Steven L. Scott

For advancing supercomputer architecture through the development of the Cray T3E, the Cray X-1 and the Cray "Black Widow".

William J. Dally

For fundamental contributions to the design and engineering of high-performance interconnection networks, parallel computer architectures, and high-speed signaling technology.

Burton J. Smith

For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing and especially for sustained championing of the use of multithreading to enable parallel execution and overcome latency and to achieve high performance in industrially significant products.

Monty M. Denneau

For ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to widely used industrial products.

John L. Hennessy

For pioneering contributions to the foundation, teaching, and practice of high performance computing, especially in distributed shared memory multiprocessor architectures and in design and application of reduced instruction set architectures.

Glen J. Culler

For pioneering contributions to the foundation and practice of high performance computing in array and very long instruction word (VLIW) processing especially for use in interactive scientific exploration.

John Cocke

For unique and creative contributions to the computer industry through innovative high performance system designs.