Final results based on selections made by HPCwire readers and editors globally

SEATTLE, Nov. 15 -- HPCwire (www.HPCwire.com), the leading publication for news and information from the high performance computing industry announced the winners of the 2011 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards at the 23rd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC11) in Seattle, Washington. Jeff Hyman, president and group publisher of Tabor Communications Inc., parent company of HPCwire, revealed the list of winners from the HPCwire booth during the opening gala on Monday evening.

HPCwire has designated two categories of Awards: (1) Readers' Choice, where winners have been determined through election by HPCwire readers, and (2) Editors' Choice, where winners have been selected by a panel of editorial and executive staff, recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from industry. These awards are widely recognized as the most prestigious recognition given by the HPC community to its own each year.

"It's an honor and a privilege to take time during the most important supercomputing conference worldwide to acknowledge the organizations and the individuals behind them who exemplify the hard work, dedication, and effort that has taken place the past year to develop new technologies that ultimately benefit mankind.," said Jeff Hyman, president and group publisher of Tabor Communications Inc. "The awards represent the highest level of recognition to the leaders and luminaries in the high performance computing industry by our HPCwire readers and the HPC community alike. Our warmest congratulations go out to all the recipients of this year's awards."

The 2011 HPCwire Readers and Editors' Choice Awards

Best use of HPC application in manufacturing

Readers' Choice: The Boeing Company

Editor's Choice: The AAI Corporation


Best use of HPC in life sciences

Readers' Choice: NVIDIA Tesla GPU's

Editor's Choice: GNS Healthcare, 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

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


Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry

Readers' Choice: NVIDIA's CUDA and Quadro

Editor's Choice: Industrial Light & Magic for "Rango"


Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application

Readers' Choice: Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center and SGI for Blacklight (SGI Altix UV 1000)

Editor's Choice: IBMResearch DeepQA for IBM Watson


Best use of HPC in the cloud

Readers' Choice: NERSC & The Argonne National Laboratory for Magellan

Editor's Choice: Pacific Biosciences of California Inc.

Best application of "green computing" in HPC

Readers' Choice: Tokyo Institute of Technology TSUBAME 2.0

Editor's Choice: Tokyo Institute of Technology 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: (two winners)
The Portland Group, Inc. CUDA C for x86
Intel Parallel Studio XE 2011

Best HPC visualization product or technology

Readers' Choice: NASA Visualization System: hyperwall-2

Editor's Choice: Kitware Visualization Toolkit (VTK)


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: Europe's First Petascale Supercomputer

Editor's Choice: Fujitsu and RIKEN: 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, Data Direct Networks, Intel, NEC, Nvidia, Mellanox/Voltaire, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard

Editor's Choice: New York State partnership with Intel, IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TSMC and Samsung

Top 5 new products or technologies to watch

Readers' Choice:

1. Intel Sandy Bridge
2. IBM Blue Gene Q
3. Nvidia Tesla for GPGPU Computing
4. Cray XK6
5. AMD 6200 CPUs series (Interlagos)

Editor's Choice:

1. Solid State Storage
2. Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC)
3. AMD Opteron 6200 (Interlagos)
4. NVIDIA Kepler GPU
5. IBM Blue Gene Q

Top 5 vendors to watch

Readers' Choice:

1. Intel
2. Nvidia
3. IBM
4. Cray
5. Mellanox

Editor's Choice:

1. Intel
2. NVIDIA
3. Fujitsu
4. Xyratex
5. Appro

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About Tabor Communications Inc.

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About the International Conference for High Performance Computing (SC11)

SC11 will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and managers, SC11 will be the forum for demonstrating how these developments are driving new ideas, new discoveries and 
new industries. This year's SC11 thrust is: Data Intensive Science; the theme is Connecting Communities; and the 
technical program focus is on sustained performance. The SC11 conference is taking place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Wash., November 12 - 18, 2011. For more information on the conference and to register, visit http://sc11.supercomputing.org/.

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Source: Tabor Communications, Inc.