ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are awarded a certificate and a stipend of at least US5,000 dollars for one academic year. All ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are also invited to attend at least one SuperComputing conference. Image courtesy of SC '07

The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE-Computer Society and the SC Conference Series have announced the first year of the High Performance Computing Ph.D. Fellowship Program. 

Fellowship applications are due 30 October 2007.

The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world with a focus on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. HPC covers computational sciences, computational engineering, and computer science using the most powerful computers available at a given time.

Students must be nominated by a full-time faculty member at a Ph.D.-granting, accredited institution. They must be enrolled in a full-time Ph.D. program at an accredited college or university, and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination.

Fellowship recipients will be selected based on:

• their overall potential for research excellence,
• the degree to which their technical interests align with those of the HPC community,
• their academic progress to-date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head as well as a plan of study to enhance HPC related skills
• the demonstration of their anticipated use of HPC resources.

Application forms and more information are available online; completed applications should be submitted along with nomination and endorsement letters by October 30, 2007.