Best Paper Award

Function Merging by Sequence Alignment . Rodrigo C. O. Rocha and Pavlos Petoumenos (University of Edinburgh, UK); Zheng Wang (Lancaster University, UK); Murray Cole and Hugh Leather (University of Edinburgh, UK) .

Test of Time Award

Automatic Feature Generation for Machine Learning Based Optimizing Compilation. Hugh Leather (University of Edinburgh, UK); Edwin Bonilla (University of Edinburgh, UK); Michael O’Boyle (University of Edinburgh, UK) .

Student Research Competition Awards

Undergraduate Category

Gold: Brandon Neth (University of Arizona). “Automatic Parallelization of Irregular x86-64 Loops”.

Graduate Category

Gold: Robin Kruppe (TU Darmstadt, Germany). “Extending LLVM for Lightweight SPMD Vectorization: Using SIMD and Vector Instructions Easily From Any Language”.

Silver: Keren Zhou (Rice University, USA). “A Tool for Performance Analysis of GPU-accelerated Applications”.

Bronze: Alok Mishra (Stonybrook University). “Kernel Fusion/Decomposition for Automatic GPU-Offloading”.