Dheevatsa Mudigere, one of our 2009 graduates of the BGCE elite programme, received the “Best student paper award” at the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009) in Kochi, India, for his paper “Fast GPU data rearrangement kernels using CUDA”. The paper is related to his master’s thesis, a joint project of the GE labs in Bangalore and the Chair of Scientific Computing of TUM’s Computer Science department.