SCA AWARDS
About the Awards
The Supercomputing Frontiers (SCF)/National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore awards were inaugurated in 2017, at the 3rd annual SCF High Performance Computing (HPC) conference in Singapore. Organised by NSCC, SCF provided a platform for thought leaders from both academia and industry to interact and discuss visionary ideas, important global trends and novel innovations in supercomputing.
Riding on the success of the SCF conference series, from 2018, NSCC expanded SCF’s scope by embarking on SupercomputingAsia 2018 (SCA18) as a new annual conference that will encompass an umbrella of notable supercomputing and allied events in Asia. SCA18’s key objective is to promote a vibrant and shared HPC ecosystem in Asia, where the most exciting HPC developments are taking place.
During SCA18 conference, the SCF/NSCC awards were rebranded as the SCA awards. The SCA Awards recognises pioneers and thought leaders who have been instrumental in developing the supercomputing and HPC ecosystem in Singapore.
Award Categories
Asia HPC Leadership
Award
The Asia HPC Leadership Award recognises an outstanding individual with excellence in leadership within the HPC community.
Asia HPC Visionary/
Pioneer Award
The Asia HPC Visionary Award recognises an outstanding individual who has demonstrated great vision in the future of HPC for Asia.
Singapore HPC-Pioneer & Achievement Award
The Singapore HPC-Pioneer & Achievement Award recognises an individual who has been instrumental in shaping Singapore’s High Performance Computing journey from the start and who has made a significant contribution to its development.
Singapore HPC Distinguished Service Award
The Singapore HPC Distinguished Service Award recognises an individual with long-service and contribution within the local HPC community.
Award Winners
Mr Peter Ho
SCA HPC Distinguished Service Award (Singapore)
Inaugural Chairman, Steering Committee, NSCC Singapore
Professor Shinji Shimojo
SCA HPC Distinguished Service Award (Japan)
Director and Professor, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
Professor Kengo Nakajima
SCA HPC Pioneer & Achievement Award (Japan)
Professor and Leader of Supercomputing Research Division, Information Technology Center, University of Tokyo, Japan & Deputy Director, RIKEN-CCS, Japan
Emeritus Professor Lawrence Wong Wai Choong
SCA HPC Network Achievement Award (Posthumous)
Former President, Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN) & Former Chair, SupercomputingAsia (SCA) Conference Organising Committee
Prof. David Abramson
SCA HPC Visionary Award
Director, University of Queensland Research Computing Centre, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Jysoo Lee
SCA HPC Leadership/Achievement Award
Facilities Director, Research Computing Core Labs, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia
A/Prof Francis Lee Bu Sung
SCA HPC Network Achievement Award
Founding President, Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN), Singapore
Prof Putchong Uthayopas
SCA21 Asia HPC Leadership Award
Vice President for Digital Technology
Kasetsart University, Thailand
Prof Simon See
Singapore HPC Pioneer & Achievement Award
Director and Chief Solution Architect,
Nvidia AI Technology Center, Singapore
Prof Taisuke Boku
Asia HPC Leadership Award
Director & Professor, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Dr David Kahaner
Asia HPC Pioneer Award
Founding Director, Asian Technology
Information Program (ATIP), Japan
Mr Lim Soon Hock
Singapore HPC-Pioneer & Achievement Award
Founder and Managing Director,
PLAN-B ICAG Pte. Ltd, Singapore
Prof Satoshi Matsuoka
Asia HPC Leadership Award
Director, RIKEN Center for Computational
Science (R-CCS), Japan
Dr Raj Thampuran
Asia HPC Visionary Award
Managing Director, Agency for Science
Technology and Research, Singapore
Dr Satoshi Sekiguchi
Asia HPC Leadership Award
Vice President and Director General,
Department of Information Technology and
Human Factors, National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Prof Lam Khin Yong
Singapore Distinguished Service Award
Vice President (Research), President’s Office,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Goh Eng Lim
Singapore Visionary Award
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, HPC
and AI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Singapore