Congratulations to Professor Sanjay Kale and the rest of the Charm++ team in Kale's Parallel Programming Laboratory. Charm++ was a finalist for the productivity-oriented HPC Challenge award and won HPC Challenge class II in the performance sub-category at the Supercomputing 2011 conference!
The class II competition tries to identify promising high-level parallel programming systems that offer high performance coupled with developer productivity. The class II award was partitioned into "performance" and "elegance" categories, both with separate winners. The Illinois submission for performance used Kale's Charm++. The goal of the competition is to focus the HPC community's attention on developing a broad set of HPC hardware and HPC software capabilities that are necessary to productively use HPC systems.