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Background
The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an award given by the IEEE Computer Society, to recognize significant and innovative contributions in the field of high-performance computing. The award honors scientists who exhibit the creativity demonstrated by Seymour Cray, founder of Cray Research, Inc., and an early pioneer of supercomputing. Cray played a key role in the invention and design of the UNIVAC 1103, a landmark high-speed processing computer model that is first available for commercial use. In 1972 the IEEE presented Seymour with the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award for his contributions to large-scale computer design and the development of multiprocessing systems. In 1999, IEEE created the annual award in honor of his creative spirit. Cray award is one of the 12 technical awards sponsored by the IEEE computer society as a recognition given for pioneers in the field of computer science and engineering. The winner receives a crystal memento, certificate, and US$10,000 honorarium.

Nomination and Ceremony
The following criteria are reviewed when selecting a recipient:

• Leadership in field

• Breadth of work

• Achievement in other fields

• Inventive value (patents)

• Individual vs. group contribution

• Publications (articles, etc.)

• Originality of contribution

• Quality of nomination

• IEEE Society activities and honors

• Quality of endorsements

The deadline for nomination is usually July 1st every year. The nominee should be elected by other IEEE members. Self-nomination is not allowed. In order to fulfill the application, the award nomination requires a minimum of 3 endorsements. And there is no maximum number of endorsements. All documents should be prepared persively and carefully in document form and submitted through the IEEE official website. The award reception and receipt presentation is held in the SC conference, the international conference for high-performance computing networks, storage, and analysis. It is sponsored by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the IEEE Computer Society. It is usually held in the mid-November annually. The other three IEEE sponsored awards: Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award, CS Ken Kennedy Award, and Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award will award their recipients at the same time.