November 15, 2011
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
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)
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
Editor’s Choice:
Maxeler Technologies solution for accelerating risk models at JP Morgan Chase
Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry
Readers’ Choice:
Altair HyperWorks
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
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)
Editor’s Choice:
IBMResearch DeepQA for IBM Watson performance on Jeopardy!
Best use of HPC in the cloud
Readers’ Choice:
NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) and Argonne for the Magellan Project
Editor’s Choice:
Pacific Biosciences use of Cycle Computing solution for DNA analysis in the cloud
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
Editor’s Choice:
Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer
Best HPC storage product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
Editor’s Choice:
DataDirect Networks Storage Fusion Architecture
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
NVIDIA Next Generation CUDA Architecture
Editor’s Choice:
The Portland Group, Inc. CUDA C for x86 tied with Intel Parallel Studio XE 2011
Best HPC visualization product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
NASA Visualization System: hyperwall-2
Editor’s Choice:
Visualization Toolkit (VTK) created by Kitware
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Mellanox Technologies InfiniScale IV
Editor’s Choice:
Cray Inc. for Cray Gemini Interconnect
Best HPC cluster solution or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Adaptive Computing Moab Adaptive HPC Suite
Editor’s Choice:
Platform Computing for Platform LSF
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
Editor’s Choice:
RIKEN and Fujitsu for Fujitsu Supercomputer “K computer”
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
Editor’s Choice:
New York State partnership with Intel, IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TSMC and Samsung to create next generation computer chip technology
Top 5 new products or technologies to watch (in order of ranking)
Readers’ Choice:
(1) Intel Sandy Bridge, (2) IBM Blue Gene/Q, (3) NVIDIA Tesla for GPU Computing, (4) Cray XK6, (5) AMD 6200 CPUs Series (Interlagos)
Editor’s Choice:
(1) Solid State Storage, (2) Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC), (3) AMD Opteron 6200 (Interlagos), (4) NVIDIA Kepler GPU, (5) IBM Blue Gene/Q
Top 5 vendors to watch (in order of ranking)
Readers’ Choice:
(1) Intel, (2) NVIDIA, (3) IBM, (4) Cray, (5) Mellanox
Editor’s Choice:
(1) Intel, (2) NVIDIA, (3) Fujitsu, (4) Xyratex, (5) Appro