The HPCwire awards were announced and presented during the 2010 Supercomputing Conference, held in New Orleans, La. The annual awards are highly coveted as prestigious recognition of achievement by the HPC community. HPCwire extends its congratulations to this year's winners.

Best use of HPC application in manufacturing

Readers' Choice:
787 Dreamliner, The Boeing Company.

Tom Tabor with Greg Siekas, Matt Smith, Joerg Gablonsky of the Boeing Company and HPCwire's Jeff Hyman.
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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.

Raj Hazra, Intel, Tom Tabor, Jan Refsdal, Swift Engineering, Peter Ungaro, Cray.
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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. "Acting within 24 hours of receiving a request from research, the National Science Foundation made an emergency allocation of 1 million computer hours at TACC to study how the oil spreading from BP's gusher would affect coastlines."

Chris Hempel and Corey Jason Trahan accepting the award from Tom Tabor.
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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.

Tom Tabor, Kathy Yelick, NERSC Team.
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Tom Tabor and and Susan Coghlan.
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Editor's Choice:
Pfizer, drug research.

Best HPC visualization product or technology

Readers' Choice:
Paraview, Kitware.

Tom Tabor and Berk Geveci, Kitware.
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Editor's Choice:
Paraview, Kitware.

Tom Tabor and Berk Geveci, Kitware.
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Best use of HPC application in life sciences

Readers' Choice:
Smith-Waterman implementation on CHREC Novo-G supercomputer.

CHREC Team - Dr. Herman Lam, Carlo Pascoe and Dr. Alan George receiving the award from Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:
Protein folding on D.E Shaw's Anton supercomputer.

Best HPC server product or technology

Readers' Choice:
IBM iDataPlex.

Danika Alston and Herb Schultz of IBM accepting the award from Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:
SGI Altix UV.

George Skaff, Tom Tabor and Mark Barrenechea, SGI.
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Best HPC storage product or technology

Readers' Choice:
Panasas PAS 8.

Tom Tabor and Faye Pairman, Panasas.
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Editor's Choice:
DataDirect Networks SFA10000.

Tom Tabor and Paul Bloch, DataDirect.
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Best HPC software product or technology

Readers' Choice:
Intel HPC suite.

John Hengeveld, Raj Hazra and Richard Dracott of Intel with Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice: Tie:

CUDA Toolkit, NVIDIA.

Tom Tabor and Andy Keane, Nvidia.
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Multicore Optimizing Parallel Compilers, PGI (Portland Group).

Steven Nakamoto and Doug Miles of PGI with Tom Tabor.
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Best HPC interconnect product or technology

Readers' Choice:
ConnectX-2 Technology, Mellanox.

Eyal Waldman of Mellanox with Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:
Gemini interconnect, Cray Inc.

Steve Scott, Tom Tabor and Peter Ungaro, Cray.
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Best HPC Cluster Solution or Technology

Readers' Choice:
Moab Cluster Suite, Adaptive Computing.

Peter ffoulkes and Michael Jackson of Adaptive Computing with Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:
A – vSMP Foundation for Cluster, ScaleMP.

Tom Tabor and Shai Fultheim, ScaleMP.
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Top supercomputing achievement

Readers' Choice:
Edo Apra, scaling NWChem to 1.39 PF on "Jaguar".

Tom Tabor presenting the award to Robert Harrison on behalf of Edo Apra, ORNL.
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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.

 

Tom Tabor with Greg Siekas, Matt Smith, Joerg Gablonsky of the Boeing Company and HPCwire's Jeff Hyman.
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Editor's Choice:
U.S. Department of Energy INCITE Program 2010, The Boeing Company, General Motors, General Atomics, General Electric.

 

The Boeing Company.
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Top 5 new products or technologies to watch

Readers' Choice:

NVIDIA "Fermi" GPU.

Tom Tabor and Andy Keane, Nvidia.
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AMD Magny Cours Opteron.

Tom Tabor and Guy Ludden, AMD.
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QDR InfiniBand.

HP SL390 G7 server.

Ed Turkel, Marc Hamilton, Tom Tabor and Madhu Matta, HP.
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SGI Altix UV product line.

George Skaff, Tom Tabor and Mark Barrenechea, SGI.
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Editor's Choice:

GPGPU compilers.

Intel "Sandy Bridge" Xeon.

John Hengeveld, Raj Hazra and Richard Dracott of Intel with Tom Tabor.
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10/40 Gigabit.

Enterprise-class flash memory.

AMD "Interlagos" Opteron.

Tom Tabor and Guy Ludden, AMD.
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Top 5 vendors to watch

Readers' Choice:

HP.

Ed Turkel, Marc Hamilton, Tom Tabor and Madhu Matta, HP.
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NVIDIA.

Tom Tabor and Andy Keane, Nvidia.
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Cray Inc.

Steve Scott, Tom Tabor and Peter Ungaro, Cray.
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Bull.

Tom Tabor and Fabio Gallo, Bull.
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IBM.

Danika Alston and Herb Schultz of IBM accepting the award from Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:

Intel Corp.

John Hengeveld, Raj Hazra and Richard Dracott of Intel with Tom Tabor.
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NVIDIA.

Tom Tabor and Andy Keane, Nvidia.
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Microsoft Corp.

Tom Tabor and Kyril Faenov, Microsoft.
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T-Platforms.

AMD.

Tom Tabor and Guy Ludden, AMD.
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