The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Technical Achievement) is awarded for significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of $1000.

The past recipients of the IEEE TCSC award of excellence are: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011, David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) in 2012, Marc Snir (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2013, Yves Robert (UMR CNRS, ENS Lyon, INRIA, France) in 2014, Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA) in 2015, Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA) in 2016, Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada) in 2017, Minyi Guo (Shanghai Jiaotong University) in 2018, Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria) in 2019, Jinjun Chen (Swinburne, Australia) in 2020, and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) in 2021, Jamal Deen (McMaster University, Canada) in 2022, Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA) in 2024, Erol Gelenbe (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, PAS, Poland) in 2025.

A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. An individual can nominate at most one candidate for this award. The candidate must be an IEEE, IEEE CS, and TCSC member in good standing. Nomination must be submitted via email to the selection committee chair. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details:

• Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles.
• Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award.
• Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements in scalable computing as well as significance and impact. (Max 2-page length)
• TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidate’s service and specific contributions to TCSC. (Max 2-page length)
• Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. An endorser can endorse only one candidate for this award. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service contributions to the TCSC. The endorsement letters should be included in the nomination package.

• Nomination Deadline: August 30, 2026
• Results Notification: September 30, 2026

• Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (ltyang@ieee.org)
• Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan (bob@is.kyusan-u.ac.jp)
• Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (jinjun.chen@gmail.com)
• Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada (jamal@mcmaster.ca)
• Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy (beniamino.dimartino@unicampania.it)

Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards will be presented at a selected IEEE TCSC sponsored conference.