Harvard Medical School’s Biomedical High Performance Leadership Summit 2007 is inviting submissions for the 2007 Innovative Cluster/Grid Leadership Award.

The Committee is looking for innovations that have been enabling to biomedical research and represent unique, non-traditional, and/or highly successful approaches to implementing grid and cluster resources for biomedical research.

To be eligible for the award, the innovation must be a novel approach that was invented by the submitters and has not previously been published in trade or product literature.

Submissions will be judged on four criteria:
1) novelty of approach,
2) replicability—how easy is it to replicate in common environments,
3) measurable results—data showing efficacy from well designed evaluations, and
4) usability—how accessible is the innovation to the target users.
Submissions need not score well on all criteria to score highly overall.

Submissions are due 15 August 2007 and must include
a) a one-paragraph abstract summarizing the project,
b) a summary of the cluster/grid innovation in less than five pages,
c) brief biographies and contact information for the primary participants in the project.

Entries will be judged by the committee and the top three finalists will receive complimentary Summit registration.

The winning submission will receive a $5,000 prize to be split amongst the primary participants in the project.