Filip Blagojevic, Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science (photo) and Dr. Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Associate Professor of Computer Science and researcher in the Center for High-End Computing Systems, won the best paper award at the 12th ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), held in San Jose, CA on March 14-17. The paper, titled “Dynamic Multigrain Parallelization on the Cell Broadband Engine,’’ was selected among 22 papers accepted in the conference.

“The paper discusses a runtime system which rightsizes algorithmic parallelism on the fly, while exploiting all the dimensions of  hardware parallelism and  the memory bandwidth of the IBM Cell microprocessor,” says Dr. Nikolopoulos. The paper is co-authored by external collaborators Dr. Alexandros Stamatakis and Dr. Christos Antonopoulos. The best paper award came with an honorarium of $500.

PPoPP is the premier ACM conference in the field of parallel programming systems and methodologies. For more information, visit www.ppopp.org.