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
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
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.”
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
Editor’s Choice:
Pfizer, drug research
Best HPC visualization product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Paraview, Kitware
Editor’s Choice:
Paraview, Kitware
Best use of HPC application in life sciences
Readers’ Choice:
Smith-Waterman implementation on CHREC Novo-G supercomputer
Editor’s Choice:
Protein folding on D.E Shaw’s Anton supercomputer
Best HPC server product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
IBM iDataPlex
Editor’s Choice:
SGI Altix UV
Best HPC storage product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Panasas PAS 8
Editor’s Choice:
DataDirect Networks SFA10000
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Intel HPC suite
Editor’s Choice: (tie)
(1) CUDA Toolkit, NVIDIA; (2) Multicore Optimizing Parallel Compilers, PGI (Portland Group)
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
ConnectX-2 Technology, Mellanox
Editor’s Choice:
Gemini interconnect, Cray Inc.
Best HPC Cluster Solution or Technology
Readers’ Choice:
Moab Cluster Suite, Adaptive Computing
Editor’s Choice:
A – vSMP Foundation for Cluster, ScaleMP
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers’ Choice:
Edo Apra, scaling NWChem to 1.39 PF on “Jaguar
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
Editor’s Choice:
U.S. Department of Energy INCITE Program 2010, The Boeing Company, General Motors, General Atomics, General Electric
Top 5 new products or technologies to watch (in order of ranking)
Readers’ Choice:
(1) NVIDIA “Fermi” GPU, (2) AMD Magny Cours Opteron, (3) QDR InfiniBand, (4) HP SL390 G7 server, (5) SGI Altix UV product line
Editor’s Choice:
(1) GPGPU compilers, (2) Intel “Sandy Bridge” Xeon, (3) 10/40 Gigabit, (4) Enterprise-class flash memory, (5) AMD “Interlagos” Opteron
Top 5 vendors to watch (in order of ranking)
Readers’ Choice:
(1) HP, (2) NVIDIA, (3) Cray Inc., (4) Bull, (5) IBM
Editor’s Choice:
(1) Intel, (2) NVIDIA, (3) Microsoft, (4) T-Platforms, (5) AMD