グリッド・コンピューティング
In November 2006, Seidel received the Sidney Fernbach Award at the Supercomputing Conference in Tampa, Florida. for "outstanding contributions to the development of software for HPC and Grid computing to enable the collaborative numerical investigation of complex problems in physics; in particular, modeling black hole collisions." This award, which is one of the highest honors in computing, was given for his achievements in numerical relativity.