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HPCwire Annual Readers' Choice Awards Announced at SC10


NEW ORLEANS, LA, Nov. 15 -- HPCwire, the leading source for global news and information covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them (since 1986), revealed the winners of the HPCwire Annual Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards at the 23rd meeting of the Supercomputing Conference (SC10) in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jeff Hyman, publisher and president of HPCwire, revealed the list of winners at the HPCwire booth during the opening gala on Monday night.

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.

"It's our honor to recognize, along with our readers, the people and organizations that are making strides in high performance computing," said Jeff Hyman. "The strides being made today in HPC are remarkable, and we're humbled by the opportunity to recognize some of the leading efforts. Those selected as award recipients can consider themselves at the top of mind of HPCwire readers, editors, and luminaries in the field. Our congratulations go with all of the recipients of our 2010 awards, and we look forward to seeing what they have in store for 2011."

The HPCwire 2010 Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

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 application of HPC in Financial Services

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

Best application of HPC in Entertainment

  • Readers' Choice: Toy Story 3, Pixar animation
  • Editor's Choice: Avatar, Weta Digital rendering technology

Best HPC visualization product or technology

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

Best use of HPC application in Automotive

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

Best application of HPC in Oil & Gas

  • Readers' Choice: National Science Foundation with TACC – BP Oil Response
  • Editor's Choice: Schlumberger, GPGPU clusters

Best use of HPC in the cloud

  • Readers' Choice: Magellan Project, LBNL, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Editor's Choice: Pfizer, drug research

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 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 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 SFA 10000

Best HPC software product or technology

  • Readers' Choice: Intel HPC Suite
  • Editor's Choice: (Tie) CUDA Toolkit, NVIDIA; Multicore Optimizing Parallel Compilers, PGI

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: vSMP Foundation for Cluster, ScaleMP

Top supercomputing achievement

  • Readers' Choice: Edo Apra, Scaling NWChem to 1.39PF
  • 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 & 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
10/40 Gigabit Ethernet
Enterprise-class flash memory
Intel "Sandy Bridge" Xeon
AMD "Interlagos" Opteron

Top 5 vendors to watch

  • Readers' Choice:

HP
NVIDIA
Cray
Bull
IBM

  • Editor's Choice:

Intel
NVIDIA
Microsoft
T-Platforms
AMD

About SC10

SC10 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://sc10.supercomputing.org.

About HPCwire

HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of high performance 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. Through news, analysis and information, HPCwire facilitates in unifying the global HPC community. HPCwire can be found online at http://www.HPCwire.com.

About Tabor Communications, Inc.

Tabor Communications, Inc. is a leading international communications company providing strategy, information and solutions for High Performance Communities. Tabor Communications can be found at http://www.taborcommunications.com.

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