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2011 Annual HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards


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

The Boeing Company Readers' Choice:
The Boeing Company.

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

Best use of HPC in life sciences

NVIDIA 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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GNS Healthcare Editor's Choice:
GNS Healthcare for its patented supercomputer-driven REFS™ modeling and simulation platform.

Best use of HPC in automotive

Altair 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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The Ford Motor Company 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

NVIDIA 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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Maxeler Technologies 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

Altair Readers' Choice:
Altair HyperWorks.

Jim Scapa, CEO, and James Brancheau, CTO of Altair accepting awards from Tom Tabor.
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Repsol Energy North America Corporation 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

NVIDIA 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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Industrial Light & Magic Editor's Choice:
Industrial Light & Magic for "Rango" animated movie.

Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 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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SGI

Franz Aman, CMO of SGI accepts the Reader's Choice Award for Best use of HPC in "edge HPC" application.
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IBM 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

NERSC 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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Argonne

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc.
Cycle Computing

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

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

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

Best HPC server product or technology

Cray Readers' Choice:
Cray XE6 Supercomputer.

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

IBM 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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DataDirect Networks 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

NVIDIA 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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The Portland Group, Inc. 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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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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Best HPC visualization product or technology

NASA 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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Kitware 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

Mellanox Technologies 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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Cray Inc. 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

Adaptive Computing 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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Platform Computing 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

Bull 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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RIKEN 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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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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Best HPC collaboration between government and industry

Tokyo Institute of Technology 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.

DataDirect Networks

Alex Bouzari, CEO and Paul Bloch, President of Data Direct Networks accepting their awards from Tom Tabor (center).
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Hewlett-Packard

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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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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Mellanox

Eyal Waldman, CEO of Mellanox Technologies accepting HPCwire 2011 Readers Choice Awards from Tom Tabor.
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Microsoft

Ryan Waite, GM of HPC for Microsoft accepting the Readers Choice award from Tom Tabor.
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NEC

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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New York Editor's Choice:
New York State partnership with Intel, IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TSMC and Samsung to create next generation computer chip technology.

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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IBM

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

TSMC

Samsung

Top 5 new products or technologies to watch
Readers' Choice:

Intel 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 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 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 Cray XK6.

Tom Tabor presenting HPCwire Awards to Peter Ungaro, CEO, Cray.
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AMD 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 Solid State Storage.

Intel 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 AMD Opteron 6200 (Interlagos).

NVIDIA 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 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 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 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 IBM.

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

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

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

Intel 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 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 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 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.

Appro CEO Daniel Kim accepting their awards from Tom Tabor.
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