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The 2015 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, given in recognition of outstanding achievement in high-performance computing, was awarded to researchers Johann Rudi and Omar Ghattas of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. They share the award with their study co-authors, who utilized the Stampede supercomputer of the Texas Advanced Computing Center and the IBM Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The award-winning study modeled the flow thousands of kilometers deep in the mantle, which moves Earth's plates and triggers unpredictable events like volcanic eruptions and massive earthquakes. The SC15 supercomputing conference took place in Austin, November 15-20, 2015. SC showcases the latest in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis to advance scientific discovery, research, education and commerce. The study, "An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle," was funded in p