The OlympusMons Awards, launched by Huawei in 2019, are designed to steer research in foundational data storage theories, overcome key technical challenges, accelerate the industrial application of scientific breakthroughs, and foster collaboration between industry, academia, and research institutions. Since its inception, the awards have attracted over 240 scholars from 12 countries worldwide. To date, 5 OlympusMons Awards and 13 OlympusMons Pioneer Awards have been presented. The OlympusMons Awards have become a leading and highly regarded accolade in the data storage industry.
The 2024 OlympusMons Awards will center on tackling key challenges in the AI era, including limited bandwidth between xPUs and storage, low utilization of computing clusters, extended inference latency, and rising data storage costs driven by rapid data growth and increased data value. The event invites innovative solutions from researchers worldwide to address these pressing issues.
Learn MoreThe widespread adoption of AI applications has resulted in a significant surge in data volume that demands long-term storage, with cold data increasingly transitioning to warm data. This shift underscores the need for innovative, low-cost, large-capacity media application technologies to build storage systems optimized for maximum cost-efficiency per bit.
As large AI models follow the scaling laws to continue growing in scale and are applied to center/edge training and inference, it is essential to explore technologies like data reduction, memory semantic storage, long-term memory storage, multi-modal data management, and efficient retrieval. These advancements will establish a robust data foundation tailored for the evolving AI era.
The 2024 contest has two OlympusMons Awards and five OlympusMons Pioneer Awards.
Huawei will establish technical communication channels with winners and provide them with research assistance.
OlympusMons Award
CNY1,000,000 ≈ USD138,126 (before tax)
OlympusMons Pioneer Award
CNY200,000 ≈ USD27,625 (before tax)
Entries will be scored on the technical and commercial value of their scientific research achievements and subsequent research plans proposed for one or more challenging subjects.
Goal achievement: The degree to which the entry addresses the challenge. Innovativeness: Whether the entry applies new theories, methods, or techniques to address the challenge. Maturity: The readiness of the solution for production or real-world application. Applicability: Whether the entry can be commercialized. Extensibility: Whether the entry has the potential to be further developed. Economic benefits: Whether the entry provides social or economic benefits. Advisory Committee
President of Minjiang University
IEEE Fellow, Changjiang Scholar, Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Tsinghua University, Minjiang University
Vice President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
IEEE Fellow, Changjiang Scholar, Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Tsinghua University
Director of the National Supercomputer Centers in Guangzhou and Shenzhen
ISC Fellow
Sun Yat-sen University
Member of Academia Europaea
ACM/IEEE Fellow
ETH Zurich
Vice President and Fellow of China Computer Federation
IEEE Fellow, Changjiang Scholar, Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Vice President of Beihang University
IEEE Fellow, Changjiang Scholar
Beihang University
Member of Academia Europaea
ACM/IEEE Fellow
ETH Zurich
Member of Academia Europaea
IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Head of the Efficient Computing and Storage Group
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Dean of the Wuhan AI Research Institute
Executive Deputy Director of the Zidong.Taichu Large Model Center
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan AI Research Institute
Chief Architect
Huawei Data Storage
December 26, 2024 - March 31, 2025
April, 2025 - May, 2025
July, 2025
Applicants/Teams need to fill in OlympusMons Awards application materials using this template
and send them to dataolympus@huawei.com before the filing deadline.
