DOE awards Berkeley Lab scientist for HPC advances

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced Samuel Williams as a 2026 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award recipient in the category of Computer, Information, and Knowledge Sciences.

• Williams, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the AMCR Division and NERSC, is being recognized for contributions to performance modeling, hardware/software optimization, and computer architecture for HPC.
• The award ceremony is scheduled for November 13, 2026 in Washington, D.C.; the article also highlights his Roofline Performance Model, work on Perlmutter, and collaborations under DOE X-Stack, ECP PROTEAS-TUNE, and hardware evaluation efforts.