The HPCwire awards were announced and presented during the 2011 Supercomputing Conference, held in Seattle, WA. 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:
The Boeing Company.

Editor's Choice:
AAI Corporation for its use of HPC to improve aircraft design.

Best use of HPC in life sciences

Readers' Choice:
NVIDIA Tesla GPUs.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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Editor's Choice:
GNS Healthcare for its patented supercomputer-driven REFS™ modeling and simulation platform.

Best use of HPC in automotive

Readers' Choice:
Altair PBS Works (A division of Altair).

Jim Scapa, CEO, and James Brancheau, CTO of Altair accepting awards from Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:
The Ford Motor Company for its use of HPC innovation acceleration technology for improved product development.

Best use of HPC in financial services

Readers' Choice:
NVIDIA Tesla GPU's for JP Morgan Chase.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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Editor's Choice:
Maxeler Technologies solution for accelerating risk models at JP Morgan Chase.

Glenn Rosenberg, VP of Operations and Mike Flynn, Chairman, of Maxeler Technologies accepting the Editors Choice award for Best use of HPC in financial services from Tom Tabor.
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Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry

Readers' Choice:
Altair HyperWorks.

Jim Scapa, CEO, and James Brancheau, CTO of Altair accepting awards from Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:
Repsol Energy North America Corporation for its use of HPC to build a sustainable energy business.

Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry

Readers' Choice:
NVIDIA's CUDA and Quadro technologies.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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Editor's Choice:
Industrial Light & Magic for "Rango" animated movie.

Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application

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

Tom Tabor presenting PSC Scientific Directors Ralph Roskies and Michael Levine with the Readers Choice award for Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application for Blacklight.
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Franz Aman, CMO of SGI accepts the Reader's Choice Award for Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application.
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Editor's Choice:
IBMResearch DeepQA for IBM Watson performance on Jeopardy!

Sinisa Nikolic and Herb Schultz, IBM Deep Computing accepting IBM's 2011 Editors and Readers' Choice Awards.
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Best use of HPC in the cloud

Readers' Choice:
NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) and Argonne for the Magellan Project.

Shane Canon, Lavanya Ramakrishnan and Brent Draney of NERSC accepting their award from Tom Tabor for Best Use of HPC in the cloud.
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Editor's Choice:
Pacific Biosciences use of Cycle Computing solution for DNA analysis in the cloud.

Tom Tabor presenting Cycle Computing CEO Jasan Stone with the Editors Choice award for Best Use of HPC in the cloud.
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Best application of "green computing" in HPC

Readers' Choice:
Tokyo Institute of Technology for TSUBAME 2.0.

Editor's Choice:
Tokyo Institute of Technology for TSUBAME 2.0.

Best HPC server product or technology

Readers' Choice:
Cray XE6 Supercomputer.

Tom Tabor presenting HPCwire Awards to Peter Ungaro, CEO, Cray.
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Editor's Choice:
Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer.

Appro CEO Daniel Kim accepting their awards from Tom Tabor.
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Best HPC storage product or technology

Readers' Choice:
IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS).

Sinisa Nikolic and Herb Schultz, IBM Deep Computing accepting IBM's 2011 Editors and Readers' Choice Awards.
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Editor's Choice:
DataDirect Networks Storage Fusion Architecture.

Alex Bouzari, CEO and Paul Bloch, President of Data Direct Networks accepting their awards from Tom Tabor (center).
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Best HPC software product or technology

Readers' Choice:
NVIDIA Next Generation CUDA Architecture.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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Editor's Choice:
The Portland Group, Inc. CUDA C for x86 tied with Intel Parallel Studio XE 2011.

Doug Miles and Brent Leback of PGI accepting the Editor's Choice Award for Best HPC software product or technology.
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Presenting and accepting their awards (from left to right) Jeff Hyman, President, HPCwire, Sanjiv Shah, Director, Technical Computing Software Gp Intel, Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Datacenter and Connected Systems Gp Intel, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire, Raj Hazra, GM, HPC Gp, Intel.
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Best HPC visualization product or technology

Readers' Choice:
NASA Visualization System: hyperwall-2.

Jeff Hyman, President and Publisher of HPCwire presenting the award to Timothy Sandstrom, Senior Systems Analyst, NASA.
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Editor's Choice:
Visualization Toolkit (VTK) created by Kitware.

Berk Geveci, Director of Scientific Computing at Kitware accepting the Editors Choice award for Best HPC visualization product or technology.
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Best HPC interconnect product or technology

Readers' Choice:
Mellanox Technologies InfiniScale IV.

Eyal Waldman, CEO of Mellanox Technologies accepting HPCwire 2011 Readers Choice Awards from Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:
Cray Inc. for Cray Gemini Interconnect.

Tom Tabor presenting HPCwire Awards to Peter Ungaro, CEO, Cray.
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Best HPC cluster solution or technology

Readers' Choice:
Adaptive Computing Moab Adaptive HPC Suite.

Tom Tabor presenting the RC award to Michael Jackson, President and Co-founder of Adaptive Computing.
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Editor's Choice:
Platform Computing for Platform LSF.

Jay Muelhoefer, Vice President Marketing, Platform Computing accepting the Readers' Choice Award for Best HPC cluster solution or technology.
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Top supercomputing achievement

Readers' Choice:
Bull's Tera 100 at CEA (The Military Applications Department of the French Atomic Energy Authority): Europe's First Petascale Supercomputer.

Readers Choice Award for Top Supercomputing Acheivement presented to Pascal Barbolosi, Vice President, Extreme Computing Solutions, Bull.
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Editor's Choice:
RIKEN and Fujitsu for Fujitsu Supercomputer "K computer".

Tom Tabor presenting awards to Tadashi Watanabe Project Leader, RIKEN and Kenji Ikegai, Sr. Exec. VP, Fujitsu Ltd. Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center, Kenji Ikegai, Sr. Exec. VP, Fujitsu Ltd.
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Tom Tabor presenting awards to Tadashi Watanabe Project Leader, RIKEN and Kenji Ikegai, Sr. Exec. VP, Fujitsu Ltd. Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center, Kenji Ikegai, Sr. Exec. VP, Fujitsu Ltd.
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Best HPC collaboration between government and industry

Readers' Choice:
TSUBAME 2.0 project in collaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, DataDirect Networks, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Mellanox/Voltaire, Microsoft, NEC and Nvidia.

Alex Bouzari, CEO and Paul Bloch, President of Data Direct Networks accepting their awards from Tom Tabor (center).
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Ed Turkel, Manager, WW HPC Marketing at HP accepting award the Readers' Choice award for Best HPC collaboration between government and industry.
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Presenting and accepting their awards (from left to right) Jeff Hyman, President, HPCwire, Sanjiv Shah, Director, Technical Computing Software Gp Intel, Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Datacenter and Connected Systems Gp Intel, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire, Raj Hazra, GM, HPC Gp, Intel.
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Eyal Waldman, CEO of Mellanox Technologies accepting HPCwire 2011 Readers Choice Awards from Tom Tabor.
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Ryan Waite, GM of HPC for Microsoft accepting the Readers Choice award from Tom Tabor.
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Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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Editor's Choice:
New York State partnership with Intel, IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TSMC and Samsung to create next generation computer chip technology.

Presenting and accepting their awards (from left to right) Jeff Hyman, President, HPCwire, Sanjiv Shah, Director, Technical Computing Software Gp Intel, Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Datacenter and Connected Systems Gp Intel, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire, Raj Hazra, GM, HPC Gp, Intel.
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Sinisa Nikolic and Herb Schultz, IBM Deep Computing accepting IBM's 2011 Editors and Readers' Choice Awards.
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Top 5 new products or technologies to watch

Readers' Choice:

Intel Sandy Bridge.

Presenting and accepting their awards (from left to right) Jeff Hyman, President, HPCwire, Sanjiv Shah, Director, Technical Computing Software Gp Intel, Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Datacenter and Connected Systems Gp Intel, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire, Raj Hazra, GM, HPC Gp, Intel.
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IBM Blue Gene/Q.

Sinisa Nikolic and Herb Schultz, IBM Deep Computing accepting IBM's 2011 Editors and Readers' Choice Awards.
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NVIDIA Tesla for GPU computing.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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Cray XK6.

Tom Tabor presenting HPCwire Awards to Peter Ungaro, CEO, Cray.
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AMD 6200 CPUs series (Interlagos).

Tom Tabor presenting Guy Ludden, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AMD with the Readers' Choice award for Top 5 new products or technologies to watch.
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Editor's Choice:

Solid State Storage.

Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC).

Presenting and accepting their awards (from left to right) Jeff Hyman, President, HPCwire, Sanjiv Shah, Director, Technical Computing Software Gp Intel, Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Datacenter and Connected Systems Gp Intel, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire, Raj Hazra, GM, HPC Gp, Intel.
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AMD Opteron 6200 (Interlagos).

NVIDIA Kepler GPU.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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IBM Blue Gene Q.

Sinisa Nikolic and Herb Schultz, IBM Deep Computing accepting IBM's 2011 Editors and Readers' Choice Awards.
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Top 5 vendors to watch (in order of ranking)

Readers' Choice:

Intel.

Presenting and accepting their awards (from left to right) Jeff Hyman, President, HPCwire, Sanjiv Shah, Director, Technical Computing Software Gp Intel, Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Datacenter and Connected Systems Gp Intel, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire, Raj Hazra, GM, HPC Gp, Intel.
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NVIDIA.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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IBM.

Sinisa Nikolic and Herb Schultz, IBM Deep Computing accepting IBM's 2011 Editors and Readers' Choice Awards.
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Cray.

Tom Tabor presenting HPCwire Awards to Peter Ungaro, CEO, Cray.
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Mellanox.

Eyal Waldman, CEO of Mellanox Technologies accepting HPCwire 2011 Readers Choice Awards from Tom Tabor.
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Editor's Choice:

Intel.

Presenting and accepting their awards (from left to right) Jeff Hyman, President, HPCwire, Sanjiv Shah, Director, Technical Computing Software Gp Intel, Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM, Datacenter and Connected Systems Gp Intel, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire, Raj Hazra, GM, HPC Gp, Intel.
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NVIDIA.

Pictured: Jeff Hyman, President and Pubisher, HPC wire, Sumit Gupta, Director HPC Product Marketing, & Liza Gabrielson, Sr. Campaign Manager, Nvidia, Tom Tabor, CEO, HPCwire and Ian Buck, GM, GPU Computing, Nvidia.
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Fujitsu.

Tom Tabor presenting awards to Tadashi Watanabe Project Leader, RIKEN and Kenji Ikegai, Sr. Exec. VP, Fujitsu Ltd. Next-Generation Supercomputer R&D Center, Kenji Ikegai, Sr. Exec. VP, Fujitsu Ltd.
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Xyratex.

Tom Tabor presenting the Editors Choice award for Top Vendor to Watch to Mike Stolz, VP of Marketing & Alliances, Xyratex.
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Appro.

Appro CEO Daniel Kim accepting their awards from Tom Tabor.
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