The University of Tennessee's Jack Dongarra is to receive the prestigious ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for 2013 during the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, SC13, in November

The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) has announced the appointment of Paul Grun as the new vice chair of the organisation

The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), an international forum within the IEEE, has named Argonne's Jeff Hammond a Young Achiever in Scalable Computing for 2013

A leader in computational materials design will bring an industry perspective to the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences this year

H. Edward Seidel, senior vice president of research and innovation at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow, has been named the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), Germanys Tier-0 supercomputing institution, has appointed Michael Resch as its new chairman of the board of directors

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has welcomed T.P. Straatsma as its new scientific computing group (SCG) leader

D-Wave Systems, a commercial quantum computing company, has announced the formal launch of its US business

The Texas Advanced Computing Center has announced the arrival of Niall Gaffney in the newly created position of director of data intensive computing

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) has welcomed the election of two of its Fellows to key roles in the European chemical engineering community