# 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](http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/cse.php)
- 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](http://science.energy.gov/lawrence/) for contributions to DOE for their work
  developing PETSc in the mid-1990s.
- PETSc was a winner of a [2009 R&D 100 Award](https://www.rdworldonline.com/rd-100-archive/?YEAR=2009)
- 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](https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/yang_0693308.cfm)
- [Gordon Bell Prize at SC2015 -- An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs:
  Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle](https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/bekas_2827862.cfm#160)
- Gordon Bell Finalist at SC2009
- [GTC](http://gk.ps.uci.edu/GTC/index.html) was listed as one of the [Top Ten Advances
  in Computational Science Accomplishments of DOE in 2008](http://www.sc.doe.gov/ascr/ASCAC/Meetings/Aug08/ViewFromWashington&Germantown.pdf)
- 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](http://boundaries-in-biophysics.org/about/), MIT
- [Paul Bauman](http://engineering.buffalo.edu/mechanical-aerospace.html), UT Austin
- [Ethan Coon](http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ecoon/), Columbia University
- [Larisa Goldmints](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/larisa/www/larisa.html), CMU
- [Boyce Griffith](http://griffith.web.unc.edu/), New York University
- Glenn Hammond, University of Illinois
- [Judith Hill](https://www.csm.ornl.gov/~hilljc/), Carnegie Mellon
- Nick Jovanovic, Yale University
- [Richard Katz](http://foalab.earth.ox.ac.uk/), Columbia University
- [Mary Ann Leung](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maleung), University of Washington
- [Richard Mills](http://www.climatemodeling.org/~rmills/), William and Mary
