March 16, 2011
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.
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.
Editor's Choice:
Swift Engineering.
Raj Hazra, Intel, Tom Tabor, Jan Refsdal, Swift Engineering, Peter Ungaro, Cray.
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Editor's Choice:
Citadel Investment Group, Options Pricing with GPUs.
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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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.
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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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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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.
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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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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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:
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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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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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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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.
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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Tom Tabor and Andy Keane, Nvidia.
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Tom Tabor and Guy Ludden, AMD.
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Ed Turkel, Marc Hamilton, Tom Tabor and Madhu Matta, HP.
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George Skaff, Tom Tabor and Mark Barrenechea, SGI.
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John Hengeveld, Raj Hazra and Richard Dracott of Intel with Tom Tabor.
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10/40 Gigabit.
Enterprise-class flash memory.
Tom Tabor and Guy Ludden, AMD.
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Ed Turkel, Marc Hamilton, Tom Tabor and Madhu Matta, HP.
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Tom Tabor and Andy Keane, Nvidia.
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Steve Scott, Tom Tabor and Peter Ungaro, Cray.
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Tom Tabor and Fabio Gallo, Bull.
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Danika Alston and Herb Schultz of IBM accepting the award from Tom Tabor.
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John Hengeveld, Raj Hazra and Richard Dracott of Intel with Tom Tabor.
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Tom Tabor and Andy Keane, Nvidia.
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Tom Tabor and Kyril Faenov, Microsoft.
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Tom Tabor and Guy Ludden, AMD.
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