A joint UCLA/Oregon Health and Science University poster, authored by Yu-Ting Chen, Jason Cong, Jie Lei, Sen Li, Myron Peto, Paul Spellman, Peng Wei, and Peipei Zhou has received the best poster award at the High Throughput Sequencing (HiTSeq) held July 10-11, 2015. HiTSeq is an ISMB/ECCB 2015 special interest group (SIG) satellite conference devoted to the latest advances in computational techniques for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data. This year's conference has 60-70 posters and awarded two best poster awards. This poster, "CS-BWAMEM: A fast and scalable read aligner at the cloud scale for whole genome sequencing", presents a cloud-scale aligner, which can align pair-end whole-genome reads (30x coverage, 300GB) within 80 minutes in a 25-node cluster with 300 cores. CS-BWAMEM can achieve with almost the same quality to the state-of-the-art aligner , BWAMEM with 7x speed.