The Sidney Fernbach Award established in 1992 by the IEEE Computer Society, in memory of Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers in the development and application of high performance computers for the solution of large computational problems as the Division Chief for the Computation Division at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory from the late 1950s through the 1970s. A certificate and $2,000 are awarded for outstanding contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. The nomination deadline is 1 July each year. Past recipients 2022 Torsten Hoefler. "for application-aware design of HPC algorithms, systems and architectures, and transformative impact on scientific computing and industry." 2021 David Bader. "For the development of Linux-based massively parallel production computers and for pioneering contributions to scalable discrete parallel algorithms for real-world applications." 2020 Salman Habib. "For pioneering fundamental physics applications from smallest to largest scales on three decades of emerging forefront computing platforms." 2019 Alan Edelman. "For outstanding breakthroughs in high performance computing, linear algebra, and computational science and for contributions to the Julia programming language." 2018 Linda Petzold. "For pioneering contributions to numerical methods and software for differential-algebraic systems and for discrete stochastic simulation." 2017 Steven J. Plimpton. "For High Performance Simulation Frameworks that have advanced research in materials science, chemistry, biology and other related areas." 2016 Vipin Kumar. "For foundational work on understanding scalability, and highly scalable algorithms for graph partitioning, sparse linear systems and data mining." 2015 Alex Szalay. "For his outstanding contributions to the development of data-intensive computing systems and on the application of such systems in many scientific areas including astrophysics, turbulence, and genomics." 2014 Satoshi Matsuoka. "For his work on software systems for high-performance computing on advanced infrastructural platforms, large-scale supercomputers, and heterogeneous GPU/CPU supercomputers." 2013 Christopher R. Johnson. "For outstanding contributions and pioneering work introducing computing, simulation, and visualization into many areas of biomedicine." 2012 Laxmikant Kale and Klaus Schulten. "For outstanding contributions to the development of widely used parallel software for large biomolecular systems simulation." 2011 Cleve Moler. "For fundamental contributions to linear algebra, mathematical software, and enabling tools for computational science." 2010 James Demmel. "For computational science leadership in creating adaptive, innovative, high performance linear algebra software." 2009 Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello. "For leadership in creating the modern theoretical and practical foundations for modeling the chemistry and physics of materials. The software resulting from this work is one of the enabling tools for