The presentation of these prestigious and highly anticipated awards to each firm's leading executives will take place live during SC'12 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Past Award Recipients
Best use of HPC application in manufacturing
Readers' Choice: The Boeing Company Editor's Choice: AAI Corporation for its use of HPC to improve aircraft design
Best use of HPC in life sciences
Readers' Choice: NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Editor's Choice: GNS Healthcare for its patented supercomputer-driven REFS™ modeling and simulation platform
Best use of HPC in automotive
Readers' Choice: Altair PBS Works (A division of Altair) Editor's Choice: The Ford Motor Company for its use of HPC innovation acceleration technology for improved product development
Best use of HPC in financial services
Readers' Choice: NVIDIA Tesla GPU's for JP Morgan Chase Editor's Choice: Maxeler Technologies solution for accelerating risk models at JP Morgan Chase
Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry
Readers' Choice: Altair HyperWorks Editor's Choice: Repsol Energy North America Corporation for its use of HPC to build a sustainable energy business
Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry
Readers' Choice: NVIDIA's CUDA and Quadro technologies Editor's Choice: Industrial Light & Magic for "Rango" animated movie
Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application
Readers' Choice: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and SGI for Blacklight (SGI Altix UV 1000) Editor's Choice: IBMResearch DeepQA for IBM Watson performance on Jeopardy!
Best use of HPC in the cloud
Readers' Choice: NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) and Argonne for the Magellan Project Editor's Choice: Pacific Biosciences use of Cycle Computing solution for DNA analysis in the cloud
Best application of "green computing" in HPC
Readers' Choice: Tokyo Institute of Technology for TSUBAME 2.0 Editor's Choice: Tokyo Institute of Technology for TSUBAME 2.0
Readers' Choice: IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Editor's Choice: DataDirect Networks Storage Fusion Architecture
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers' Choice: NVIDIA Next Generation CUDA Architecture Editor's Choice: The Portland Group, Inc. CUDA C for x86 tied with Intel Parallel Studio XE 2011
Best HPC visualization product or technology
Readers' Choice: NASA Visualization System: hyperwall-2 Editor's Choice: Visualization Toolkit (VTK) created by Kitware
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers' Choice: Mellanox Technologies InfiniScale IV Editor's Choice: Cray Inc. for Cray Gemini Interconnect
Best HPC cluster solution or technology
Readers' Choice: Adaptive Computing Moab Adaptive HPC Suite Editor's Choice: Platform Computing for Platform LSF
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers' Choice: Bull's Tera 100 at CEA (The Military Applications Department of the French Atomic Energy Authority): Europe's First Petascale Supercomputer Editor's Choice: RIKEN and Fujitsu for Fujitsu Supercomputer "K computer"
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers' Choice: TSUBAME 2.0 project in collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, DataDirect Networks, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Mellanox/Voltaire, Microsoft, NEC and Nvidia Editor's Choice: New York State partnership with Intel, IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TSMC and Samsung to create next generation computer chip technology
Top 5 new productys or technologies to watch
Readers' Choice: Intel Sandy Bridge, IBM Blue Gene/Q, NVIDIA Tesla for GPU computing, Cray XK6, AMD 6200 CPUs series (Interlagos) Editor's Choice: Solid State Storage, Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC), AMD Opteron 6200 (Interlagos), NVIDIA Kepler GPU, IBM Blue Gene/Q
Readers' Choice: National Science Foundation/TACC - BP Oil Response Editor's Choice: Schlumberger, GPGPU clusters
Best application of HPC in Entertainment
Readers' Choice: Toy Story 3, Pixar animation Editor's Choice: Avatar, Weta Digital rendering technology
Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application
Readers' Choice: Center for Adaptive Supercomputing Software-Multithreaded Architectures (CASS-MT), Pacific Northwest National Labs Editor's Choice: Barclays Capital use of Sybase Aleri Streaming Platform
Best use of HPC in the cloud
Readers' Choice: Magellan Project, LBNL, Argonne National Laboratory Editor's Choice: Pfizer, drug research
Readers' Choice: Moab Cluster Suite, Adaptive Computing Editor's Choice: A-vSMP Foundation for Cluster, ScaleMP
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers' Choice: Edo Apra, scaling NWChem to 1.39 PF on "Jaguar" Editor's Choice: Number 2 TOP500 system, "Nebulae" supercomputer, Dawning
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers' Choice: Sandia National Laboratories, Cooperative Research and Development Agreement CRADA, The Boeing Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Procter and Gamble Editor's Choice: U.S. Department of Energy INCITE Program 2010, The Boeing Company, General Motors, General Atomics, General Electric
Readers' Choice: HP Cluster Platform 3000 Editors' Choice: Cray CX1
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers' Choice: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - Pandemic Modeling for H1N1 Influenza for NIH MIDAS Project Editors' Choice: Jaguar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers' Choice: U.S. Department of Energy INCITE Program 2009 Editors' Choice: Hyperion" Project
Best price/performance visualization product or technology
Readers' Choice: SGI Remote Visualization Editors' Choice: Visual Analytics, National Visualization and Analytics Center
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers' Choice: Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P Editors' Choice: Windows HPC Server 2008
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers' Choice: Voltaire InfiniBand Switches Editors' Choice: Mellanox InfiniScale IV
Best HPC cluster solution or technology
Readers' Choice: Rocks Cluster Distribution Editors' Choice: Intel Cluster Tools
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers' Choice: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire Editors' Choice: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers' Choice: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire Editors' Choice: Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers -- University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Microsoft, Intel
Readers' Choice: Appro Editors' Choice: HP Unified Cluster Portfolio
Best price/performance HPC cluster solution
Readers' Choice: Dell Editors' Choice: Sun Microsystems
Top HPC vendor for 2006
Readers' Choice: IBM Editors' Choice: Cray Inc.
HPC Public Awareness Award
Readers' Choice: Council on Competitiveness "HPC Initiative" Editors' Choice: NSF
HPC Community Recognition Award
Readers' Choice: Suzy Tichenor- Council on Competitiveness - HPC Initiative Editors' Choice: Donald L. (Don) Paul- Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Chevron
Readers' Choice: DataDirect Networks Editors' Choice: HP Storage Works Scalable File Share (HP SFS) based on Lustre Technology from Cluster File Systems Inc.
Readers' Choice: (Tie): IBM; Linux Networx Editors' Choice: Linux Networx
Best Price / Performance HPC Cluster
Readers' Choice: (Tie): Linux Networx; Sun Microsystems Editors' Choice: Sun Microsystems
Most Innovative HPC Technology for 2005 / Overall Top HPC Vendor
Readers' Choice: Cray Editors' Choice: Intel
Most Innovative Implementation of an HPC Application
Readers' Choice: Fluent, American Power Conversion, AMD and Ferrari / The Ferrari Data Center Editors' Choice: Fluent, American Power Conversion, AMD and Ferrari / The Ferrari Data Center
Best Collaboration Government & Industry
Readers' Choice: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) & IBM Editors' Choice: Cornell Theory Center
HPC Public Awareness Award
Readers' Choice: Intel Editors' Choice: CERN
HPC Community Recognition Award "For Communicating the Importance of HPC Technology & Raising Public Awareness"
Readers' Choice: Jack Dongarra, University Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee and Distinguished Research Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Editors' Choice: Dr. Thomas Zacharia, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Most Important Emerging Technology:
Readers' Choice: Cray - Red Storm Editors' Choice: Cray - Red Storm