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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

Best HPC server product or technology

Readers' Choice: Cray XE6 Supercomputer
Editor's Choice: Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer

Best HPC storage product or technology

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

Top 5 vendors to watch (in order of ranking)

Readers' Choice: Intel, NVIDIA, IBM, Cray, Mellanox
Editor's Choice: Intel, NVIDIA, Fujitsu, Xyratex, Appro

Best use of HPC application in manufacturing

Readers' Choice: 787 Dreamliner, The Boeing Company
Editor's Choice: US Olympic Bobsled, CFD software from Exa Corporation

Best use of HPC application in Automotive

Readers' Choice: BMW
Editor's Choice: Swift Engineering

Best application of HPC in Financial Services

Readers' Choice: Citigroup, advanced grid computing
Editor's Choice: Citadel Investment Group, Options Pricing with GPUs

Best application of HPC in Oil & Gas

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

Best HPC visualization product or technology

Readers' Choice: Paraview, Kitware
Editor's Choice: Paraview, Kitware

Best use of HPC application in life sciences

Readers' Choice: Smith-Waterman implementation on CHREC Novo-G supercomputer
Editor's Choice: Protein folding on D.E. Shaw's Anton supercomputer

Best HPC server product or technology

Readers' Choice: IBM iDataPlex
Editor's Choice: SGI Altix UV

Best HPC storage product or technology

Readers' Choice: Panasas PAS 8
Editor's Choice: DataDirect Networks SFA10000

Best HPC software product or technology

Readers' Choice: Intel HPC suite
Editor's Choice: Tie: CUDA Toolkit, NVIDIA

Best HPC interconnect product or technology

Readers' Choice: ConnectX-2 Technology, Mellanox
Editor's Choice: Gemini interconnect, Cray Inc.

Best HPC Cluster Solution or Technology

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

Top 5 new products or technologies to watch

Readers' Choice: NVIDIA "Fermi" GPU, AMD Magny Cours Opteron, QDR InfiniBand, HP SL390 G7 server, SGI Altix UV product line
Editor's Choice: GPGPU compilers, Intel "Sandy Bridge" Xeon, 10/40 Gigabit, Enterprise-class flash memory, AMD "Interlagos" Opteron

Top 5 vendors to watch

Readers' Choice: HP, NVIDIA, Cray Inc., Bull, IBM
Editor's Choice: Intel Corp., NVIDIA, Microsoft Corp., T-Platforms, AMD

Best use of HPC application in manufacturing

Readers' Choice: The Boeing Company
Editors' Choice: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.

Best use of HPC in life sciences

Readers' Choice: National Institutes of Health
Editors' Choice: J. Craig Venter Institute

Best use of HPC in automotive

Readers' Choice: Renault Formula One Team
Editors' Choice: Ferrari Formula One Team

Best use of HPC in financial services

Readers' Choice: Citadel Investment Group
Editors' Choice: TD Bank Financial Group -- stream computing

Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry

Readers' Choice: Petroleum Geo-Services
Editors' Choice: Fugro

Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry

Readers' Choice: Weta Digital
Editors' Choice: Blender Institute

Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application

Readers' Choice: Reuters Market Data System
Editors' Choice: Linden Lab's Second Life Grid

Best HPC server product or technology

Readers' Choice: SGI Altix ICE 8200
Editors' Choice: IBM BladeCenter QS22

Best HPC storage product or technology

Readers' Choice: Panasas ActiveStor
Editors' Choice: DataDirect Networks S2A9900

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

Top 5 new products or technologies to watch

Readers' Choice: AMD "Shanghai", QDR InfiniBand, Intel Nehalem, NVIDIA CUDA/Tesla, ScaleMP vSMP Foundation
Editors' Choice: HPC on-demand, pNFS, solid state drives, OpenCL, Intel Nehalem

Top 5 vendors to watch

Readers' Choice: IBM, Panasas, SGI, Voltaire, Cray
Editors' Choice: Cray, Bull, Microsoft, Intel, Convey Computer

Most Innovative Implementation of HPC Application in Manufacturing

Readers' Choice: The Boeing Company
Editors' Choice: Pratt & Whitney

Most Innovative Use of HPC in Life Sciences

Readers' Choice: National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC)/Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
Editors' Choice: Boston Scientific

Most Innovative Use of HPC in Automotive

Readers' Choice: Ferrari
Editors' Choice: BMW

Most Innovative Use of HPC in Financial Services

Readers' Choice: BNP Paribas
Editors' Choice: III Offshore Advisors

Most Innovative Use of HPC in Oil & Gas

Readers' Choice: Petroleum Geo-Services
Editors' Choice: Shell Oil Company

Most Innovative Use of HPC in Entertainment

Readers' Choice: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Editors' Choice: DreamWorks Animation

Best HPC Collaboration Between Government & Industry

Readers' Choice: LANL / IBM / AMD for Roadrunner
Editors' Choice: DOE INCITE Program

Best Price/Performance HPC Hardware Solution

Readers' Choice: Rackable Systems
Editors' Choice: AMD Quad-Core Opteron

Best Price/Performance HPC Storage Technology or Product

Readers' Choice: Panasas ActiveStor
Editors' Choice: Sun Fire x4500 Server

Best Price/Performance Visualization Product of Technology

Readers' Choice: HP Scalable Visualization Array
Editors' Choice: HP's Parallel Compositing Library

Best Price/Performance HPC Software Product

Readers' Choice: Mercury Multicore Plus SDK for PS3
Editors' Choice: Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P

Best Price/Performance HPC Networking Product or Technology

Readers' Choice: Voltaire
Editors' Choice: Mellanox ConnectX

Most Important HPC Networking Product or Technology

Readers' Choice: Cisco
Editors' Choice: Woven Systems Ethernet Fabric Switch

Best Price / Performance HPC Cluster Solution

Readers' Choice: Voltaire
Editors' Choice: Dell PowerEdge Servers

Most Significant New HPC Hardware Product

Readers' Choice: IBM Blue Gene/P
Editors' Choice: NVIDIA Tesla

Most Innovative HPC Storage Technology of Product

Readers' Choice: PSC ZEST
Editors' Choice: Panasas Tiered Parity

Most Significant New HPC Software Product

Readers' Choice: NVIDIA CUDA
Editors' Choice: RapidMind Development Platform

Most Innovative HPC Visualization Product or Technology

Readers' Choice: CEI EnSight
Editors' Choice: Mercury Computer Systems OpenRTRT

Most Innovative HPC Cluster Solution

Readers' Choice: SGI Altix
Editors' Choice: SiCortex

HPC Public Awareness Award

Readers' Choice: TeraGrid
Editors' Choice: U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

HPC Community Recognition Award

Readers' Choice: Dr. Eng Lim Goh (SGI)
Editors' Choice: Dan Reed (RENCI)

Top HPC Vendor for 2007

Readers' Choice: IBM
Editors' Choice: IBM

Top 5 vendors to watch

Editors' Choice: Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, RapidMind, Sun Microsystems

Most innovative implementation of an HPC application in Manufacturing

Readers' Choice: Tata Motors
Editors' Choice: Boeing

Most innovative use of HPC in Life Sciences

Readers' Choice: GlaxoSmithKline
Editors' Choice: Merck

Most innovative use of HPC in Automotive

Readers' Choice: Toyota Motorsport GmbH
Editors' Choice: BMW

Most innovative use of HPC in Financial Services

Readers' Choice: D. E. Shaw Group
Editors' Choice: JPMorgan Chase

Most innovative use of HPC in Oil and Gas

Readers' Choice: Chevron
Editors' Choice: BP

Most innovative use of HPC in Entertainment

Readers' Choice: Microsoft Xbox Live
Editors' Choice: Threshold Animation Studios

Best HPC collaboration between government and industry

Readers' Choice: ClearSpeed Technology
Editors' Choice: Liquid Computing

Best price/performance HPC hardware solution

Readers' Choice: HP
Editors' Choice: Sun Microsytems

Most innovative HPC storage technology or product

Readers' Choice: Crosswalk
Editors' Choice: EMC

Best price/performance HPC storage technology or product

Readers' Choice: DataDirect Networks
Editors' Choice: Panasas

Most significant new HPC software product

Readers' Choice: The Portland Group "PGI Visual Fortran"
Editors' Choice: Interactive Supercomputing "Star-P"

Best price/performance HPC software product

Readers' Choice: Verari Systems
Editors' Choice: Scali

Most innovative HPC visualization product or technology

Readers' Choice: NVIDIA
Editors' Choice: NVIDIA

Best price/performance visualization product or technology

Readers' Choice: CEI "EnSight Lite"
Editors' Choice: ATI

Most important HPC networking product or technology

Readers' Choice: Cisco
Editors' Choice: Juniper Networks

Best price/performance HPC networking product or technology

Readers' Choice: Mellanox Technologies
Editors' Choice: Voltaire

Most innovative HPC cluster solution

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

Top Five Companies to watch in 2007

Editors' Choice: AMD, ClearSpeed, Microsoft, SGI, SiCortex

Most Significant New HPC Product - Hardware

Readers' Choice: AMD64 Dual Core Processor
Editors' Choice: IBM

Most Important Overall HPC Technology or Product

Readers' Choice: AMD64 Dual Core Processor
Editors' Choice: IBM

Best Hardware Price / Performance Solution

Readers' Choice: Dell PowerEdge Servers
Editors' Choice: Dell PowerEdge Servers

Most Innovative Storage Technology Vendor

Readers' Choice: DataDirect Networks
Editors' Choice: HP Storage Works Scalable File Share (HP SFS) based on Lustre Technology from Cluster File Systems Inc.

Best Price / Performance Storage Solution

Readers' Choice: DataDirect Networks / RAID Storage Networking System
Editors' Choice: Panasas, ActiveScale File Syste

Most Significant New HPC Product - Software

Readers' Choice: NPACI Rocks 4.0
Editors' Choice: PathScale, EKO Compiler Suite

Most Important Software Innovation

Readers' Choice: Myricom, Myrinet MX Software
Editors' Choice: NPACI Rocks 4.0

Best Software Price / Performance

Readers' Choice: PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite
Editors' Choice: (Tie): Etnus, TotalView; PathScale, EKOPath Compiler Suite

Most Innovative Visualization Technology or Product

Readers' Choice: SGI
Editors' Choice: SGI

Best Price / Performance In High-end Graphics or Visualization

Readers' Choice: SGI
Editors' Choice: SGI

Most Innovative HPC Networking Solutions

Readers' Choice: Myricom
Editors' Choice: Mellanox

Best HPC Networking Price / Performance Solution

Readers' Choice: Myricom
Editors' Choice: Intel

Most Innovative HPC Cluster Technology

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

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