Winners of the 2024 Golden Spike Awards

Photo of Thomas Ludwig with Björn Klose, holding his Golden Spike Award.
Dr. Björn Klose (l) was one of three winners of the 2024 Golden Spike Awards, announced by Prof. Thomas Ludwig, chair of the HLRS Steering Committee.

The awards, presented at the 27th Results and Review Workshop, recognize recent research in computational fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and algorithms for big data applications.

On October 10-11, 2024, users of the high-performance computing (HPC) systems at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) met to present and discuss their recent research at the 27th Annual Results and Review Workshop. Each year, this two-day conference highlights applications of high-performance computing and offers opportunities to discuss issues related to application performance and scalability.

For the first time, this year’s Results and Review Workshop took place at KIT, where the SCC is a partner with HLRS in providing HPC resources for researchers across Germany. In 21 talks and a poster session, conference attendees learned about the latest research results in fields such as computational fluid dynamics, reactive flows, climate research, computer science, chemistry and materials science, bioinformatics, astrophysics, and particle physics, among others. In addition to focusing on traditional simulation methods using HPC, the talks and poster session included presentations discussing uses of machine learning methods and strategies for improving energy efficiency in the use of HPC.

For the first time, the Results and Review Workshop was held at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Prof. Martin Frank, Director of the Scientific Computing Center at KIT (at right), welcomed the conference attendees. 

At the conclusion of the meeting, HLRS steering committee chairman Professor Thomas Ludwig (Director, German Climate Computing Center) announced the winners of the 2024 HLRS Golden Spike Awards. Presented every year at the Results and Review Workshop, the awards recognize excellence in computational research and the use of high-performance computing. Representing their respective projects by presenting lectures at the workshop, this year’s Golden Spike Award winners are:

Dr. Björn F. Klose (Institute of Test and Simulation of Gas Turbines, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Cologne)
Numerical investigation of shock-boundary layer interaction on a highly-loaded transonic compressor cascade to compare with experimental results 

Simon Homes (Thermodynamics Section, Technische Universität Berlin)
Molecular simulations: A thermodynamic study of bulk and interface behavior

Tim Niklas Uhl (Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Algorithm Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Scalable discrete algorithms for big data applications

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Conference program, including links to posters presented at the conference.

More information about the Golden Spike Awards