The Program Committee has selected 3 Best Paper Award finalists:

• Ok-Topk-SP: A Novel Sparse Allreduce for Distributed Deep Neural Network Training on CPUs
  Miguel Pardo-Navarro, José Ignacio Aliaga and Manuel F. Dolz
• MTASet: A Tree-based Set for Efficient Range Queries in Update-heavy Workloads
  Daniel Manor, Mor Perry and Moshe Sulamy
• Mobile Byzantine Agreement with Trusted Monotonic Counters
  Bo Pan and Maria Potop-Butucaru

Congratulations to them! The award recipient will be announced on Thursday, July 10th in the Closing session of the conference.

The winner of the Best Paper Award is:

“Ok-Topk-SP: A Novel Sparse Allreduce for Distributed Deep Neural Network Training on CPUs”

Miguel Pardo-Navarro, José Ignacio Aliaga and Manuel F. Dolz