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November 17, 2008
HPCwire Announces Annual Readers' Choice Awards
Awards announced based on voting by HPCwire readers and editors worldwide
AUSIN, Texas, Nov. 17 -- HPCwire, the leading source for global news and information covering the ecosystem of high productivity computing, revealed the winners of HPCwire's annual Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards at the 20th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC08) in Austin, Texas.
HPCwire has designated two categories of Awards: (1) Readers' Choice, where winners have been determined by a poll of HPCwire readers, and (2) Editors' Choice, where winners have been determined by votes of a panel of recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from industry. These awards are widely recognized as prestigious recognition from the HPC community.
"Each year, HPCwire and its readers recognize the tremendous amount of innovation happening in the HPC industry as both individual and collaborative efforts push the boundaries of what's possible," said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. "It's our great pleasure to take time each year to offer recognition to the leaders and luminaries in this industry. The community spirit that these awards represent is notable, as we look to our readers, our editors, and industry luminaries to make the determination on who is deserving of recognition for the year. The response this year has been tremendous, with a record amount of votes being cast. We are excited to reveal the winners of these prestigious and highly anticipated awards."
The HPCwire 2008 Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards
Best use of HPC application in manufacturing:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: The Boeing Company
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.
Best use of HPC in life sciences:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: National Institutes of Health
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: J. Craig Venter Institute
Best use of HPC in automotive:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Renault Formula One Team
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Ferrari Formula One Team
Best use of HPC in financial services:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Citadel Investment Group
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: TD Bank Financial Group -- stream computing
Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Petroleum Geo-Services
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Fugro
Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Weta Digital
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Blender Institute
Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Reuters Market Data System
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Linden Lab's Second Life Grid
Best HPC server product or technology:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: SGI Altix ICE 8200
Editors' Choice Award Recipients: IBM BladeCenter QS22
Best HPC storage product or technology:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Panasas ActiveStor
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: DataDirect Networks S2A9900
Best price/performance visualization product or technology:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: SGI Remote Visualization
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Visual Analytics, National Visualization and Analytics Center
Best HPC software product or technology:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Interactive Supercomputing's Star-P
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Windows HPC Server 2008
Best HPC interconnect product or technology:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Voltaire InfiniBand Switches
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Mellanox InfiniScale IV
Best HPC cluster solution or technology:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Rocks Cluster Distribution
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Intel Cluster Tools
Top supercomputing achievement:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: 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 Award Recipients: AMD "Shanghai", QDR InfiniBand, Intel Nehalem, NVIDIA CUDA/Tesla, ScaleMP vSMP Foundation
Editors' Choice Award Recipients: HPC on-demand, pNFS, solid state drives, OpenCL, Intel Nehalem
Top 5 vendors to watch:
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: IBM, Panasas, SGI, Voltaire, Cray
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Cray, Bull, Microsoft, Intel, Convey Computer
More about SC08
SC08 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, showcasing how high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in research, education and commerce. ACM and the IEEE Computer Society are the SCxy conference series sponsors. For more information, visit http://sc08.supercomputing.org.
About HPCwire
HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Productivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. HPCwire can be found online at http://www.HPCwire.com.
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