Jim Gray Awarded Tsinghua Team

On the morning of Oct. 19, 2002, Jim Gray, visited Tsinghua University in Beijing, the capital of China, and awarded the 2002 PennySort (Daytona) winner from the university.

The PennySort benchmark was created by Jim Gray in 1998. Jim Gray is a greatest computer scientist, who has won the 1998 Turing Award.

In the 2002 competition, the team from Tsinghua University, set up a new world record in the Daytona category with THSort, which sorted 105 million records (10,500,000,000 bytes) in 1098 seconds on a $857 system.

Jim Gray had dinner with 2002 PennySort (Daytona category) winner, the Tsinghua Team from China. (10-16-2002)

Prof. Li-Zhu Zhou, dean of Department of Computer Science and Technology, was presiding over the ceremony.

Jim Gray was awarding the PennySort team.

An honorable moment with Jim Gray

In the second half of the ceremony, Jim Gray had given a talk in the title of Twelve Computer Science Challenges.

More than 300 students and researchers from major universities in Beijing had attended the ceremony.

Jim Gray was answering questions from the audience. 

Several major TV stations and newspapers, including CCTV (China Central TV), BTV (Beijing TV) and China Youth Daily, were reporting the event.

After the ceremony, Jim Gray met three famous professors, Prof. San-li Li(academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering), Prof. Ba Zhang (academician of Chinese Academy of Science) and Prof. Li-Zhu Zhou (dean of Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University).

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