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CCGrid 2026

Paper Awards

Awards and nominations announced during the CCGrid 2026 Gala Dinner on 20 May 2026 in Sydney, Australia.

Award Winners

Best Poster Award

Network Telescope as a source of actionable information in near real-time

Marek Janiszewski, Jan Adamski, Marcin Rytel, Jakub Koman and Wojciech Sołtys

Selected from 8 accepted posters.

TCSC SCALE Challenge Winner

Scaling Real-Time Traffic Analytics on Edge-Cloud Fabrics for City-Scale Camera Networks

Akash Sharma, Pranjal Naman, Roopkatha Banerjee, Priyanshu Pansari, Sankalp Gawali, Mayank Arya, Sharath Chandra Madanu, Arun Josephraj, Rakshit Ramesh, Punit Rathore, Anirban Chakraborty, Raghu Krishnapuram, Vijay Kovvali and Yogesh Simmhan

Selected from 5 accepted SCALE Challenge papers. The award included $1000 USD from TCSC.

Best Student Paper Award

TelePod: Live Migration for Stateful Containers

Mingjie Yan, Atharva Ranade, Xin Zhang and Kartik Gopalan

Selected from the Best Student Paper Award nominations.

Best Paper Award

Automated Configuration of Power-Management Knobs for Optimal HPC Job Executions

Francesco Antici, Andrea Proia, Ryoma Ohara, Toshihiro Hanawa, Zeynep Kiziltan, Andrea Bartolini and Jens Domke

Selected from the Best Paper Award nominations.

Paper Award Nominations

Best Student Paper Award Nominations

Selected from 62 accepted conference papers.

Characterizing LLM Inference Energy-Performance Tradeoffs across Workloads and GPU Scaling

Paul Joe Maliakel, Shashikant Ilager and Ivona Brandic

Winner

TelePod: Live Migration for Stateful Containers

Mingjie Yan, Atharva Ranade, Xin Zhang and Kartik Gopalan

BucketLSM: What, After All, Is the I/O Bottleneck Behind L0 Key-Range Overlap in LSM-Based KV Stores?

Jaewan Park, Kyungwook Min, Sungjin Byeon, Taewan Noh, Hyungi Park, Xubin He, Hongyeon Kim and Youngjae Kim

Best Paper Award Nominations

Winner

Automated Configuration of Power-Management Knobs for Optimal HPC Job Executions

Francesco Antici, Andrea Proia, Ryoma Ohara, Toshihiro Hanawa, Zeynep Kiziltan, Andrea Bartolini and Jens Domke

Exploring Silent Data Corruption as a Reliability Challenge in LLM Training

Anton Altenbernd, Philipp Wiesner and Odej Kao

Benchmarking Message Brokers for IoT Edge Computing: A Comprehensive Performance Study

Tapajit Chandra Paul, Pawissanutt Lertpongrujikorn, Hai Nguyen and Mohsen Amini Salehi

Award Committees

Posters Chairs
  • Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of North Texas (UNT), US
  • Stefan Nastic, TU Wien, Austria
  • Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
SCALE Challenge Computation Chairs
  • Lorenzo Carnevale, University of Messina, Italy
  • Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputer Centre, Germany

Session Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, US

Program Chairs
  • Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France
  • Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, US