A paper by postdoctoral associate Chris Leonardi was selected as the Best High Performance Computing (HPC) paper at the 2011 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference in Boston. Co-authors on the paper are former postdoctoral associate David Holmes, Professor John Williams and Peter Tilke, a visiting scientist in the Department of Earth, Atomospheric and Planetary Sciences. An article about the work on multicore and oil well simulation appears on the HPC Wired website. Leonardi works in the MIT Geonumerics Laboratory and the MIT Geospatial Data Center.